Two decades of progress towards understanding fossilization processes and isotopic signals in calcified tissue minerals

Archaeometry

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 435-446

  Lee Thorp, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Bone; Carbon isotopes; Carbonate; Diagenesis; Enamel; Mineral; Oxygen isotopes; Phosphate

Indexed keywords

CARBON ISOTOPE; DIAGENESIS; FOSSILIZATION; PALEOCLIMATE; RECONSTRUCTION;

EID: 0036668899     PISSN: 0003813X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1475-4754.t01-1-00076     Document Type: Article

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