Expanding the utility of Uranium-series dating of speleothems for archaeological and palaeontological applications

Journal of Archaeological Science

Volumn 36, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1416-1423

  St Pierre, Emma ^a   Zhao, Jian xin ^a   Reed, Elizabeth ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Chronology; Limestone cave sites; Soda straw stalactites; Speleothems; Uranium series dating

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGY; CAVE; GEOCHRONOLOGY; SPELEOTHEM; STALACTITE; URANIUM SERIES DATING;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; BLANCHE CAVE; SOUTH AUSTRALIA;

EID: 65449184476     PISSN: 03054403     EISSN: 10959238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jas.2009.02.004     Document Type: Article

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