Ancient carbon from a melting glacier gives high 14 C age in living pioneer invertebrates

Scientific Reports

Volumn 3, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Hågvar, Sigmund ^a   Ohlson, Mikael ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; FOOD CHAIN; HISTORY; INVERTEBRATE; PALEONTOLOGY;

ANIMALS; CARBON RADIOISOTOPES; FOOD CHAIN; HISTORY, ANCIENT; INVERTEBRATES; PALEONTOLOGY;

EID: 84885156372     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep02820     Document Type: Article

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