The schmidt hammer as a holocene calibrated-age dating technique: Testing the form of the R-value-age relationship and defining the predicted-age errors

Holocene

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 615-628

  Shakesby, Richard A ^a   Matthews, John A ^a   Karlén, Wibjörn ^b   Los, Sietse O ^a  

^a SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

calibrated age dating; Holocene; raised shoreline; rock weathering; Schmidt hammer exposure age dating (SHD); Sweden; weighted least squares regression (WTLS)

Indexed keywords

BEACH; CALIBRATION; DATING METHOD; ERROR ANALYSIS; GRANITE; HOLOCENE; LITHOLOGY; MEASUREMENT METHOD; PALEOENVIRONMENT; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SHORELINE; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WEATHERING;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BALTIC SEA; GULF OF BOTHNIA;

EID: 79957666943     PISSN: 09596836     EISSN: 14770911     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0959683610391322     Document Type: Article

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