Uranium-series ages of speleothems from South Andros, Bahamas: Implications for quaternary sea-level history and palaeoclimate

Cave and Karst Science

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 67-74

  Smart, Peter L ^a   Richards, David A ^a   Edwards, R Larry ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

KARST; PALEOCLIMATE; QUATERNARY; SEA LEVEL; SPELEOTHEM; URANIUM SERIES DATING;

BAHAMAS;

EID: 0032441419     PISSN: 1356191X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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