Methods and code for 'classical' age-modelling of radiocarbon sequences

Quaternary Geochronology

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 512-518

  Blaauw, Maarten ^a  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Calibration; Exploratory analysis; Radiocarbon age modelling; Software

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; GEOCHRONOLOGY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; RADIOCARBON DATING; SOFTWARE;

EID: 77956342803     PISSN: 18711014     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quageo.2010.01.002     Document Type: Article

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