First cross-matched floating chronology from the marine fossil record: Data from growth lines of the long-lived bivalve mollusc Arctica islandica

Holocene

Volumn 16, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 967-974

  Scourse, James ^a   Richardson, Chris ^a   Forsythe, Graham ^a   Harris, Ian ^b   Heinemeier, Jan ^c   Fraser, Nicole ^a   Briffa, Keith ^b   Jones, Phil ^b  

^a BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^c AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Arctica islandica; Cross matching; HOLSMEER project; Mediaeval; North Sea; Sclerochronology

Indexed keywords

BIVALVE; CHRONOLOGY; FOSSIL RECORD; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MARINE RECORD; MEDIEVAL; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; RADIOCARBON DATING; TIMESCALE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; NORTH SEA;

ARCTICA ISLANDICA; BIVALVIA; MOLLUSCA;

EID: 33947192872     PISSN: 09596836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0959683606hl987rp     Document Type: Review

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