Marine reservoir corrections for bowhead whale radiocarbon age determinations

Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences

Volumn 33, Issue 12, 1996, Pages 1628-1637

  Dyke, Arthur S ^a   McNeely, Roger N ^a   Hooper, James ^b  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RADIOCARBON AGE;

EID: 0030317536     PISSN: 00084077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/e96-123     Document Type: Article

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