Comparative dating of a Bison-bearing late-Pleistocene deposit, Térapa, Sonora, Mexico

Quaternary Geochronology

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 631-643

  Bright, Jordon ^a   Kaufman, Darrell S ^a   Forman, Steven L ^b   McIntosh, William C ^c   Mead, Jim I ^d   Baez, Arturo ^e  

^a NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^c NEW MEXICO INSTITUTE OF MINING AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d EAST TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e Environmental Research Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

Amino acid geochronology; Bison, 40Ar 39Ar; Luminescence dating; Radiocarbon; Sonora

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; ARGON-ARGON DATING; BASALT; FOSSIL; GEOCHRONOLOGY; LUMINESCENCE DATING; PLEISTOCENE; RADIOCARBON DATING;

MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; SONORA;

ANIMALIA; BISON;

EID: 78149500934     PISSN: 18711014     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quageo.2010.05.002     Document Type: Article

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