The use of 'bomb spike' calibration and high-precision AMS 14C analyses to date salt-marsh sediments deposited during the past three centuries

Quaternary Research

Volumn 68, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 325-337

  Marshall, William A ^a   Gehrels, W Roland ^a   Garnett, Mark H ^b   Freeman, Stewart P H T ^c   Maden, Colin ^c   Xu, Sheng ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^b NATURAL ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United Kingdom)

^c SCOTTISH UNIVERSITIES ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

210Pb; Poole Harbour; Radiocarbon dating; sea level change; Spheroidal carbonaceous particles

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATOR MASS SPECTROMETRY; CHRONOLOGY; LEAD ISOTOPE; RADIOCARBON DATING; SEA LEVEL CHANGE;

DORSET [ENGLAND]; ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; POOLE HARBOUR; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 35348845771     PISSN: 00335894     EISSN: 10960287     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yqres.2007.07.005     Document Type: Article

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