Uranium-series dating of speleothemes: Current techniques, limits amp; Applications

Studies of Cave Sediments: Physical and Chemical Records of Paleoclimate

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 177-197

  Dorale, Jeffrey A ^a   Edwards, R Lawrence ^b   Jr, E Calvin Alexander ^b   Shen, Chuan Chou ^b   Richards, David A ^c   Cheng, Hai ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-5766-3_10     Document Type: Chapter

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