Numerical dating of a Late Quaternary spit-shoreline complex at the northern end of Silver Lake playa, Mojave Desert, California: A comparison of the applicability of radiocarbon, luminescence, terrestrial cosmogenic nuclide, electron spin resonance, U-series and amino acid racemization methods

Quaternary International

Volumn 166, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 87-110

  Owen, Lewis A ^a   Bright, Jordon ^b   Finkel, Robert C ^c   Jaiswal, Manoj K ^d   Kaufman, Darrell S ^b   Mahan, Shannon ^e   Radtke, Ulrich ^f   Schneider, Joan S ^g   Sharp, Warren ^h   Singhvi, Ashok K ^d   Warren, Claude N ⁱ  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

^b NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d PHYSICAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (India)

^e U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^h BERKELEY GEOCHRONOLOGY CENTER   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATOR MASS SPECTROMETRY; AMINO ACID; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE DATING; LUMINESCENCE DATING; QUATERNARY; RACEMIZATION; RADIOCARBON DATING; SHORELINE; SPIT; URANIUM SERIES DATING;

MOJAVE DESERT; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 34247215991     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2007.01.001     Document Type: Article

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