Preliminary results of combined ESR/U-series dating of fossil teeth from Longgupo cave, China

Quaternary Geochronology

Volumn 10, Issue , 2012, Pages 436-442

  Han, Fei ^a,b   Bahain, Jean Jacques ^b   Boëda, Éric ^c,d   Hou, Yamei ^d   Huang, Wanbo ^d,e   Falguères, Christophe ^b   Rasse, Michel ^f   Wei, Guangbiao ^e   Garcia, Tristan ^g   Shao, Qingfeng ^b   Yin, Gongming ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY   (China)

^b MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

^c Inrap)   (France)

^d INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY AND PALEOANTHROPOLOGY   (China)

^e China Three Gorges Museum   (China)

^f UNIVERSITÉ DE ROUEN   (France)

^g LABORATOIRE NATIONAL HENRI BECQUEREL   (France)

Author keywords

China; Early Pleistocene; ESR U series method; Fossil teeth; Longgupo site

Indexed keywords

ARTIFACT; CORRELATION; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE DATING; FOSSIL; HOMINID; INVERSE ANALYSIS; PLEISTOCENE; PLIOCENE; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; TOOTH; URANIUM SERIES DATING;

CHINA;

HOMINIDAE;

EID: 84863783471     PISSN: 18711014     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quageo.2012.03.006     Document Type: Article

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