Radiocarbon dating by high-sensitivity liquid scintillation counting of wood from the fox permafrost tunnel near Fairbanks, Alaska

Permafrost and Periglacial Processes

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 281-285

  Long, Austin ^a   Péwé, Troy L ^b  

^a University of Arizona   (United States)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Alaska; Fox tunnel; Permafrost sediments

Indexed keywords

EID: 0038865694     PISSN: 10456740     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-1530(199609)7:3<281::AID-PPP222>3.0.CO;2-Y     Document Type: Article

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