Paleoearthquakes as anchor points in bayesian radiocarbon deposition models: A case study from the dead sea

Radiocarbon

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 1018-1026

  Kagan, Elisa J ^a,b   Stein, Mordechai ^b   Agnon, Amotz ^a   Ramsey, Christopher Bronk ^c  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATOR MASS SPECTROMETRY; BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEPOSITIONAL SEQUENCE; HOLOCENE; PALEOSEISMICITY; RADIOCARBON DATING; SEISMIC STRATIGRAPHY; STRATIGRAPHIC CORRELATION;

DEAD SEA;

EID: 78049291391     PISSN: 00338222     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0033822200046105     Document Type: Article

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