Uranium-series coral ages from the US Atlantic Coastal Plain-the "80 ka problem" revisited

Quaternary International

Volumn 120, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 3-14

  Wehmiller, John F ^a   Simmons, Kathleen R ^b   Cheng, Hai ^c   Edwards, R Lawrence ^c   Martin McNaughton, Jamie ^c,d   York, Linda L ^a   Krantz, David E ^a   Shen, Chuan Chou ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^c University of Minnesota   (United States)

^d BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORAL; LAST INTERGLACIAL; LAURENTIDE ICE SHEET; QUATERNARY; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SHORELINE CHANGE; URANIUM SERIES DATING;

ATLANTIC COAST [UNITED STATES]; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 2342641001     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2004.01.002     Document Type: Article

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