Identifying outliers and assessing the accuracy of amino acid racemization measurements for geochronology: I. Age calibration curves

Quaternary Geochronology

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 308-327

  Kosnik, Matthew A ^a   Kaufman, Darrell S ^b   Hua, Quan ^c  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c AUSTRALIAN NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ORGANISATION   (Australia)

Author keywords

Age calibration curves; Amino acid geochronology; Carbon 14; Carbonate sediments; Holocene; Mollusca

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; AGE DETERMINATION; AMINO ACID; CALIBRATION; CARBON ISOTOPE; CARBONATE SEDIMENT; ERROR ANALYSIS; GEOCHRONOLOGY; HOLOCENE; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; MOLLUSC; NUMERICAL METHOD; RACEMIZATION; TYPE SPECIMEN;

MOLLUSCA; NATICA; TELLINA;

EID: 44649086316     PISSN: 18711014     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quageo.2008.04.002     Document Type: Article

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