An Icelandic freshwater radiocarbon reservoir effect: Implications for lacustrine 14C chronologies

Holocene

Volumn 21, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1073-1080

  Ascough, P L ^a   Cook, G T ^a   Hastie, H ^a   Dunbar, E ^a   Church, M J ^b   Einarsson, A ^c   McGovern, T H ^d   Dugmore, A J ^e  

^a SCOTTISH UNIVERSITIES ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^b DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c Mývatn Research Station   (Iceland)

^d CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

freshwater; Iceland; radiocarbon; reservoir effect

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; CARBON ISOTOPE; CHRONOLOGY; CORRECTION; PALEOENVIRONMENT; RADIOCARBON DATING; SAMPLING; SPATIAL VARIATION; STABLE ISOTOPE; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ICELAND; MYVATN;

EID: 80053198848     PISSN: 09596836     EISSN: 14770911     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0959683611400466     Document Type: Article

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