Three approaches to radiocarbon calibration of amino acid racemization in Mulinia lateralis from the Holocene of the Chesapeake Bay, USA

Quaternary Geochronology

Volumn 16, Issue , 2013, Pages 62-72

  Simonson, Amy E ^a,c   Lockwood, Rowan ^b   Wehmiller, John F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^b Dept of Economics and Thomas Jefferson Program in Public Policy at the College of William and Mary   (United States)

^c U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Amino acid racemization; Aminochronology; Chesapeake Bay; Geochronology; Holocene; Mollusk; Monospecific intershell variability; Mulinia lateralis; Time averaging

Indexed keywords

AGE DETERMINATION; AMINO ACID; BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CALIBRATION; GEOLOGICAL RECORD; HOLOCENE; MOLLUSC; RACEMIZATION; RADIOCARBON DATING;

CHESAPEAKE BAY; UNITED STATES;

BIVALVIA; MULINIA LATERALIS;

EID: 84877148742     PISSN: 18711014     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quageo.2012.06.005     Document Type: Article

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