Identifying outliers and assessing the accuracy of amino acid racemization measurements for geochronology: II. Data screening

Quaternary Geochronology

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 328-341

  Kosnik, Matthew A ^a   Kaufman, Darrell S ^b  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Amino acid geochronology; Amino acid racemization; Carbonate sediments; Great Barrier Reef; Holocene; Mollusca; Time averaging

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; AGE STRUCTURE; AMINO ACID; CARBONATE SEDIMENT; CORE ANALYSIS; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; GEOCHRONOLOGY; HOLOCENE; MOLLUSC; NUMERICAL METHOD; OUTLIER; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RACEMIZATION; TIME ALLOCATION; TYPE SPECIMEN;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; CORAL SEA; GREAT BARRIER REEF; PACIFIC OCEAN; QUEENSLAND;

MOLLUSCA; NATICA; TELLINA;

EID: 44649186129     PISSN: 18711014     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quageo.2008.04.001     Document Type: Article

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