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Just as the polar caps are excellent archives of information on past climates, so too are the high-altitude tropical glaciers. Indeed, the prevailing temperature and humidity conditions there usually ensure very good preservation of chemical and isotopic tracers.
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Vimeux, F. (2021). Air-Ice Interface: Tropical Glaciers. In: Ramstein, G., Landais, A., Bouttes, N., Sepulchre, P., Govin, A. (eds) Paleoclimatology. Frontiers in Earth Sciences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-24982-3_20
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