Direct U-Th dating of vertebrate fossils with minimum sampling destruction and application to museum specimens

Quaternary Geochronology

Volumn 18, Issue , 2013, Pages 1-8

  Price, Gilbert J ^a   Feng, Yue xing ^a   Zhao, Jian xin ^a   Webb, Gregory E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Fossil vertebrates; Megafauna; Museum specimens; Quaternary; U series dating

Indexed keywords

AGE DETERMINATION; FOSSIL; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; PALEONTOLOGY; QUATERNARY; SAMPLING; STRATIGRAPHY; TAPHONOMY; TOOTH; URANIUM SERIES DATING; VERTEBRATE;

AUSTRALIA;

MELALEUCA ALTERNIFOLIA; METATHERIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84884247253     PISSN: 18711014     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quageo.2013.07.003     Document Type: Article

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