Application of U/Th and 40Ar/39Ar dating to orgnac 3, a Late Acheulean and Early Middle Palaeolithic site in Ardèche, France

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 2013, Pages

  Michel, Véronique ^a,b   Shen, Guanjun ^c   Shen, Chuan Chou ^d   Wu, Chung Che ^d   Vérati, Chrystèle ^b   Gallet, Sylvain ^b   Moncel, Marie Hélène ^e   Combier, Jean ^f   Khatib, Samir ^g   Manetti, Michel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CÔTE D'AZUR   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ CÔTE D'AZUR   (France)

^c NANJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^e IPH   (France)

^f CNRS   (France)

^g Laboratoire Départemental de Préhistoire du Lazaret   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ISOSORBIDE DINITRATE; RADIOISOTOPE;

ARCHEOLOGY; ARGON ARGON DATING; ARTICLE; BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CAVE; CHRONOLOGY; FRANCE; GEOGRAPHIC AND GEOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; PALEOLITHIC; RADIOMETRIC DATING; ROCK; SPELEOTHEM; STALAGMITE; STRATIGRAPHY; URANIUM THORIUM DATING;

ANIMALS; ARCHAEOLOGY; ARGON; FOSSILS; FRANCE; MINERALS; PALEONTOLOGY; RADIOISOTOPES; RADIOMETRIC DATING; THORIUM; TIME FACTORS; URANIUM;

EID: 84891915992     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0082394     Document Type: Article

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