Carbon-14 wiggle-match dating of peat deposits: Advantages and limitations

Journal of Quaternary Science

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 177-181

  Blaauw, Maarten ^a   van Geel, Bas ^a   Mauquoy, Dmitri ^a   van der Plicht, Johannes ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

14C calibration; 14C chronologies; 14C wiggle match dating

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; CHRONOLOGY; HOLOCENE; PEAT; RADIOCARBON DATING;

EID: 1642440238     PISSN: 02678179     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jqs.810     Document Type: Article

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