Preparative centrifugation - A new method for preparing pollen concentrates suitable for radiocarbon dating by AMS

Vegetation History and Archaeobotany

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 201-205

  Regnéll, Joachim ^a   Everitt, Einar ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

AMS radiocarbon dating; Isodensity; Pollen analysis; Sedimentation rate centrifugation; Tree pollen

Indexed keywords

EID: 21444437322     PISSN: 09396314     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00217497     Document Type: Article

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