Improved age modelling approaches as exemplified by the revised chronology for the Central European varved lake Soppensee

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 27, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 61-71

  Blockley, S P E ^a   Ramsey, C Bronk ^a   Lane, C S ^a   Lotter, A F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b Palaeoecology   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; CONSTRAINT THEORY; LAKES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STRATIGRAPHY;

PALAEOCLIMATE ARCHIVES; RADIOCARBON AGES; WIDER CHRONOLOGICAL INFORMATION;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; CHRONOLOGY; CLIMATE CHANGE; LAACHER SEE TEPHRA; MODELING; PALEOCLIMATE; RADIOCARBON DATING; STRATIGRAPHY;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; SOPPENSEE; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 38949171337     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2007.01.018     Document Type: Article

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