A robust deterministic model describing the bomb radiocarbon signal for use in fish age validation

Transactions of the American Fisheries Society

Volumn 137, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 852-859

  Hamel, Owen S ^a   Piner, Kevin R ^b   Wallace, John R ^a  

^a ALASKA FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^b SOUTHWEST FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE DETERMINATION; CHRONOLOGY; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; EXPLOSIVE; FISH; GAUSSIAN METHOD; OTOLITH; RADIOCARBON DATING;

EID: 45249096918     PISSN: 00028487     EISSN: 15488659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1577/T07-144.1     Document Type: Article

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