Radiocarbon dates and Holocene sea-level change along the Cuddalore and Odinur Coast, Tamil Nadu

Current Science

Volumn 91, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 362-367

  Hameed, Abbas ^a   Achyuthan, Hema ^a   Sekhar, B ^b  

^a ANNA UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b BIRBAL SAHNI INSTITUTE OF PALAEOBOTANY   (India)

Author keywords

Core sediments; Organic matter; Radiocarbon dates; Sediment texture; Tidal zones

Indexed keywords

EID: 33747869577     PISSN: 00113891     EISSN: 00113891     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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