Combining visual and geochemical analyses to source chert on Southern Baffin Island, Arctic Canada

Geoarchaeology

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 429-449

  Brooke Milne, S ^a   Hamilton, Anne ^a   Fayek, Mostafa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATION; ALUMINUM; ANALYTICAL METHOD; CHERT; GALLIUM; GEOCHEMICAL METHOD; LITHIC FRAGMENT; PETROGRAPHY; PROVENANCE; VISUAL ANALYSIS; ZIRCONIUM;

BAFFIN ISLAND; CANADA; NUNAVUT;

EID: 67650892205     PISSN: 08836353     EISSN: 15206548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/gea.20273     Document Type: Article

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