ESR chronology of alluvial deposits in the Arlanzón valley (Atapuerca, Spain): Contemporaneity with Atapuerca Gran Dolina site

Quaternary Geochronology

Volumn 10, Issue , 2012, Pages 418-423

  Moreno, Davinia ^a,b,c   Falguères, Christophe ^a   Pérez González, Alfredo ^d   Duval, Mathieu ^d   Voinchet, Pierre ^a   Benito Calvo, Alfonso ^d   Ortega, Ana Isabel ^d   Bahain, Jean Jacques ^a   Sala, Robert ^b,c   Carbonell, Eudald ^b,c,e   Bermúdez de Castro, Jose María ^d   Arsuaga, Juan Luis ^f  

^a MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITAT ROVIRA I VIRGILI   (Spain)

^c INSTITUT CATALÀ DE PALEOECOLOGIA HUMANA I EVOLUCIÓ SOCIAL   (Spain)

^d CENTRO NACIONAL DE INVESTIGACIÓN SOBRE LA EVOLUCIÓN HUMANA CENIEH   (Spain)

^e INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY AND PALEOANTHROPOLOGY   (China)

^f Centro UCM ISCIII para la Evolución y Comportamiento Humanos   (Spain)

Author keywords

Arlanz n; Bleached quartz; ESR dating; Fluvial sediments; Gran Dolina; Pleistocene

Indexed keywords

ALLUVIAL DEPOSIT; CHRONOSTRATIGRAPHY; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE DATING; FLUVIAL GEOMORPHOLOGY; GEOCHRONOLOGY; PALEOMAGNETISM; PLEISTOCENE; QUARTZ; SEDIMENTARY SEQUENCE; VALLEY;

BURGOS [CASTILLA Y LEON]; CASTILLA Y LEON; GRAN DOLINA; SIERRA DE ATAPUERCA; SPAIN;

HOMINIDAE;

EID: 84863775368     PISSN: 18711014     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quageo.2012.04.018     Document Type: Article

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