Incremental accretion of a sandy reef island over the past 3000 years indicated by component-specific radiocarbon dating

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2007, Pages

  Woodroffe, Colin D ^a   Samosorn, Bongkoch ^a   Hua, Quan ^b   Hart, Deirdre E ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ORGANISATION   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; RADIOACTIVE ELEMENTS; RADIOMETRY; REEFS; SAND; SEA LEVEL; SEDIMENTS;

RADIOCARBON; RADIOCARBON DATING; RADIOMETRIC DATING; SANDY REEF ISLAND;

GEOCHRONOLOGY;

BIOACCUMULATION; DEPOSITION; HOLOCENE; PALEOECOLOGY; RADIOCARBON DATING; REEF;

TORRES STRAIT;

GASTROPODA;

EID: 34548038156     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006GL028875     Document Type: Article

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