All age-depth models are wrong: But how badly?

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 23, Issue 1-2, 2004, Pages 1-5

  Telford, R J ^a   Heegaard, E ^a   Birks, H J B ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TIME MEASUREMENT;

AGE-DEPTH MODELS; RADIOCARBON DATING;

SEDIMENTS;

CHRONOLOGY; ERROR ANALYSIS; QUATERNARY; RADIOCARBON DATING; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; VARVE;

EID: 1542321201     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2003.11.003     Document Type: Article

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