Mysterious abrupt carbon-14 increase in coral contributed by a comet

Scientific Reports

Volumn 4, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Liu, Yi ^a   Zhang, Zhao Feng ^b   Peng, Zi Cheng ^a   Ling, Ming Xing ^b   Shen, Chuan Chou ^c   Liu, Wei Guo ^d   Sun, Xiao Chun ^e   Shen, Cheng De ^b   Liu, Ke Xin ^f   Sun, Weidong ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b GUANGZHOU INSTITUTE OF GEOCHEMISTRY   (China)

^c NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^e Institute of History of Natural Science Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^f Peking University   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON;

ANIMAL; ANTHOZOA; CHEMISTRY; CHINA; COSMIC RADIATION;

ANIMALS; ANTHOZOA; CARBON RADIOISOTOPES; CHINA; COSMIC RADIATION;

EID: 84892718999     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep03728     Document Type: Article

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