Cosmic impact or natural fires at the Allerød-Younger Dryas boundary: A matter of dating and calibration

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 110, Issue 41, 2013, Pages

  Van Hoesel, Annelies ^a   Hoek, Wim Z ^a   Van Der Plicht, Johannes ^b,c   Pennock, Gillian M ^a   Drury, Martyn R ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^c LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON 14; CHARCOAL; NANODIAMOND;

ASTRONOMY; CALIBRATION; COLD; FIRE; HUMAN; LETTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOMETRIC DATING; UNCERTAINTY; YOUNGER DRYAS;

GEOLOGY; METEOROIDS; MINOR PLANETS;

EID: 84885338168     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1311174110     Document Type: Letter

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