Precise 14C ages of the Vedde and Saksunarvatn ashes and the Younger Dryas boundaries from western Norway and their comparison with the Greenland Ice Core (GICC05) chronology

Journal of Quaternary Science

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 490-500

  Lohne, Oslash ystein S ^a   Mangerud, Jan ^a   Birks, Hilary H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

AL YD boundary; Bayesian age depth modelling; Chronostratigraphy; Lake sediments; YD H boundary

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; CARBON ISOTOPE; CHRONOLOGY; CHRONOSTRATIGRAPHY; CLIMATE VARIATION; ICE CORE; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; PALEOCLIMATE; TEPHRA; YOUNGER DRYAS;

KRAKENES; NORWAY; SOGN OG FJORDANE;

EID: 84880285497     PISSN: 02678179     EISSN: 10991417     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jqs.2640     Document Type: Article

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