Radiocarbon Dating of Plant Macrofossils from Tidal-Marsh Sediment

Treatise on Geomorphology

Volumn 14, Issue , 2013, Pages 370-388

  Kemp, A C ^a   Nelson, A R ^b   Horton, B P ^c,d  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^d NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Holocene; Plant macrofossils; Radiocarbon; Tidal marsh

Indexed keywords

EID: 84903418928     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-374739-6.00400-0     Document Type: Chapter

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