U-Th vs. AMS 14C dating of shells from the Achenheim loess (Rhine Graben)

Bulletin de la Societe Geologique de France

Volumn 176, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 249-255

  Innocent, Christophe ^a   Flehoc, Christine ^a   Lemeille, Francis ^b  

^a BRGM   (France)

^b INSTITUT DE RADIOPROTECTION ET DE SÛRETÉ NUCLÉAIRE IRSN   (France)

Author keywords

14C dating; Loess deposits; Quaternary; Rhine Graben; U Th dating

Indexed keywords

LOESS; RADIOCARBON DATING; URANIUM SERIES DATING;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; RHINE GRABEN; WORLD;

EID: 20544434863     PISSN: 00379409     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/176.3.249     Document Type: Article

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