Recent TIMS dating results from British Late Pleistocene vertebrate faunal localities: Context and interpretation

Journal of Quaternary Science

Volumn 22, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 793-800

  Gilmour, Mabs ^a   Currant, Andy ^b   Jacobi, Roger ^b   Stringer, Chris ^b  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Faunas; Late Pleistocene; Marine isotope stages; Sea levels; TIMS dating

Indexed keywords

DATING METHOD; FAUNA; MAMMAL; MARINE ISOTOPE STAGE; PLEISTOCENE; SEA LEVEL;

EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

BISON; MAMMALIA; RANGIFER TARANDUS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 35348987802     PISSN: 02678179     EISSN: 10991417     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jqs.1112     Document Type: Article

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