Radiocarbon reservoir effect and the timing of the late-glacial/early Holocene humid phase in the Atacama Desert (Northern Chile)

Quaternary Research

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 143-153

  Geyh, Mebus A ^a   Grosjean, Martin ^b   Núñez, Lautaro ^c   Schotterer, Ulrich ^b  

^a Jt Geoscientific Research Institute   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DEL NORTE   (Chile)

Author keywords

Altiplano; Central Andes; Geoarchaeology; Lake sediments; Tauca phase

Indexed keywords

HOLOCENE; LAKE LEVEL; PALEOCLIMATE; RADIOCARBON DATING;

ATACAMA DESERT; CHILE;

ATACAMA;

EID: 0033396690     PISSN: 00335894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/qres.1999.2060     Document Type: Article

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