Revised age estimate of the Mjáuvøtn tephra A on the Faroe Islands based on Bayesian modelling of 14C dates from two lake sequences

Journal of Quaternary Science

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 612-616

  Olsen, Jesper ^a   Gudmundsdóttir, Esther Ruth ^b   Björck, Svante ^c   Odgaard, Bent V ^a   Heinemeier, Jan ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

^c LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Faroe Islands; Holocene; Mj uv tn tephra A; Radiocarbon dating; Tephrochronology

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; HOLOCENE; RADIOCARBON DATING; TEPHRA; TEPHROCHRONOLOGY;

FAROE ISLANDS;

EID: 77955557544     PISSN: 02678179     EISSN: 10991417     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jqs.1405     Document Type: Article

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