A numerical approach to 14C wiggle-match dating of organic deposits: Best fits and confidence intervals

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 22, Issue 14, 2003, Pages 1485-1500

  Blaauw, Maarten ^a   Heuvelink, Gerard B M ^a   Mauquoy, Dmitri ^b   Van Der Plicht, Johannes ^c   Van Geel, Bas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; PEAT;

WIGGLE-MATCH DATING (WMD);

GEOCHRONOLOGY;

CALIBRATION; DATING METHOD; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PEAT; RADIOCARBON DATING;

EID: 0037743734     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0277-3791(03)00086-6     Document Type: Article

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