Last Interglacial Age for aeolian and marine deposits and the Nahoon fossil human footprints, Southeast Coast of South Africa

Quaternary Geochronology

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 160-169

  Jacobs, Zenobia ^a   Roberts, David L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^b Western Cape Regional Office   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Coastal aeolianites; Coquinite; Environmental dose rate; Fossil footprints; Klein Brak Formation; Last interglacial; Luminescence; Modern humans; Nahoon Formation; Radiocarbon

Indexed keywords

AGE DETERMINATION; ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINT; HOMINID; LAST INTERGLACIAL; LUMINESCENCE DATING; QUARTZ; RADIOCARBON DATING; SEA LEVEL; STRATIGRAPHIC CORRELATION;

AFRICA; SOUTH AFRICA; SOUTHERN AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

HOMINIDAE;

EID: 59849093561     PISSN: 18711014     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quageo.2008.09.002     Document Type: Article

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