Use of radiocarbon dating to interpret past environments of maerl beds;Uso de técnicas de fechado con carbono radioactivo para interpretar ambientes históricos de bancos de rodolitos

Ciencias Marinas

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 385-397

  Blake, Charmaine ^a   Maggs, C ^b   Reimer, P ^b  

^a Environment and Heritage Service   (Ireland)

^b QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Climate change; Holocene; Maerl; Radiocarbon dating; Rhodolith

Indexed keywords

ALGA; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONSERVATION STATUS; HOLOCENE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; RADIOCARBON DATING; SEDIMENTATION; SPECIES CONSERVATION;

BELFAST [NORTHERN IRELAND]; EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN IRELAND; STRANGFORD LOUGH; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

ALGAE;

EID: 38649137327     PISSN: 01853880     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7773/cm.v33i4.1187     Document Type: Conference Paper

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