Considerations of the scale of radiocarbon offsets in the east Mediterranean, and considering a case for the latest (most recent) likely date for the Santorini eruption

Radiocarbon

Volumn 54, Issue 3-4, 2012, Pages 449-474

  Manning, Sturt W ^a   Kromer, Bernd ^b,c  

^a Cornell University ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^c University of Tübingen and Curt Engelhorn Zentrum Archäometrie   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON EMISSION; CARBON ISOTOPE; DATA SET; GROWING SEASON; POLLUTION EFFECT; RADIOCARBON DATING; VOLCANIC ERUPTION;

MEDITERRANEAN REGION;

THERA;

EID: 84873861637     PISSN: 00338222     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/s0033822200047202     Document Type: Article

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