High resolution paleoenvironmental and chronological investigations of Norse landnám at Tasiusaq, Eastern Settlement, Greenland

Quaternary Research

Volumn 69, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 1-15

  Edwards, Kevin J ^a   Schofield, J Edward ^a   Mauquoy, Dmitri ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bayesian statistics; Eastern Settlement; Greenland; landn m; Norse; Palynology; Radiocarbon dating; Soil erosion

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATOR MASS SPECTROMETRY; BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; CHRONOLOGY; LAND DEGRADATION; OVERGRAZING; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALYNOLOGY; RADIOCARBON DATING; SOIL EROSION;

ARCTIC; GREENLAND;

BETULA GLANDULOSA; BETULA PUBESCENS;

EID: 38349191693     PISSN: 00335894     EISSN: 10960287     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yqres.2007.10.010     Document Type: Article

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