Seeing red in cyclic stratigraphy: Spectral noise estimation for astrochronology

Paleoceanography

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Meyers, Stephen R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHRONOLOGY; DATA SET; ESTIMATION METHOD; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; NOISE; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; STRATIGRAPHY; TIMESCALE;

EID: 84865442483     PISSN: 08838305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012PA002307     Document Type: Article

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