Cosmogenic isotope burial dating of fluvial sediments from the Lower Rhine Embayment, Germany

Quaternary Geochronology

Volumn 6, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 313-325

  Dehnert, Andreas ^a   Kracht, Oliver ^a   Preusser, Frank ^a   Akçar, Naki ^a   Kemna, Hans Axel ^b   Kubik, Peter W ^c   Schlüchter, Christian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

10Be; 26Al; Cosmogenic nuclides; Geochronology; Parameter estimation

Indexed keywords

AGE DETERMINATION; ALLUVIAL DEPOSIT; BERYLLIUM ISOTOPE; BURIAL (GEOLOGY); CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); COSMOGENIC RADIONUCLIDE; DATING METHOD; ESTIMATION METHOD; GEOCHRONOLOGY; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

GERMANY; LOWER RHINE BASIN; RHINE BASIN;

EID: 79955711345     PISSN: 18711014     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quageo.2011.03.005     Document Type: Article

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