Sourcing temper sands in ancient ceramics with U-Pb ages of detrital zircons: A southwest Pacific test case

Journal of Archaeological Science

Volumn 39, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 2583-2591

  Tochilin, Clare ^a   Dickinson, William R ^a   Felgate, Matthew W ^b   Pecha, Mark ^a   Sheppard, Peter ^b   Damon, Frederick H ^c   Bickler, Simon ^d   Gehrels, George E ^a  

^a The University of Arizona   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^d Bickler Consultants   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Ceramics; Detrital zircon; Geochronology; Temper sand

Indexed keywords

CERAMICS; GEOCHRONOLOGY; METHODOLOGY; MIOCENE; PERMIAN-TRIASSIC BOUNDARY; PETROGRAPHY; SEDIMENTOLOGY; URANIUM-LEAD DATING; ZIRCON;

SQUAMATA;

EID: 84860889162     PISSN: 03054403     EISSN: 10959238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jas.2012.04.002     Document Type: Article

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