Recent barrier beach retreat in Georgia: Dating exhumed salt marshes by aspartic acid racemization and post-bomb radiocarbon

Journal of Coastal Research

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 960-969

  Goodfriend, Glenn A ^a   Rollins, Harold B ^b  

^a GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Amino acid racemization; Geukensia; Radiocarbon dating; Spartina

Indexed keywords

BARRIER ISLAND; CHRONOLOGY; COASTAL EROSION; SALTMARSH;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0031854513     PISSN: 07490208     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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