U-series isochron dating of immature and mature calcretes as a basis for constructing Quaternary landform chronologies for the Sorbas basin, southeast Spain

Quaternary Research

Volumn 64, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 100-111

  Candy, Ian ^a   Black, Stuart ^b   Sellwood, Bruce W ^b  

^a LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Alluvial terrace sequence; Calcrete; Isochron; Southeast Spain; U series

Indexed keywords

CALCRETE; GEOCHRONOLOGY; QUATERNARY; URANIUM SERIES DATING;

ALMERIA [ANDALUCIA]; ANDALUCIA; BETIC CORDILLERA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; SORBAS BASIN; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN; WORLD;

EID: 21744461783     PISSN: 00335894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yqres.2005.05.002     Document Type: Article

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