Testing the accuracy of 14C age data from pollen oncentrates in the Yangtze delta, China

Radiocarbon

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 181-187

  Li, Chunhai ^a   Li, Yongxiang ^b   Burr, George S ^c  

^a NANJING INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHY AND LIMNOLOGY   (China)

^b NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c The University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATOR MASS SPECTROMETRY; ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; AGE DETERMINATION; PALYNOLOGY; RADIOCARBON DATING; SAMPLING; SEDIMENT ANALYSIS;

CHINA; YANGTZE DELTA;

EID: 84896868664     PISSN: 00338222     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2458/56.16920     Document Type: Article

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