Radiocarbon: Calibration to Absolute Time Scale

Treatise on Geochemistry: Second Edition

Volumn 14, Issue , 2013, Pages 37-43

  Hajdas, I ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

AMS; Calendar time scale; Calibration; Dendrochronology; INTCAL; Radiocarbon dating

Indexed keywords

AMERICIUM; BAYESIAN NETWORKS; CLIMATOLOGY; HISTORY;

DENDROCHRONOLOGY; EXPERIMENTAL CALIBRATION; HISTORICAL BACKGROUND; INTCAL; NATURAL VARIABILITY; RADIOCARBON CALIBRATION; RADIOCARBON DATING; TIME-SCALES;

CALIBRATION;

EID: 84903800213     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-08-095975-7.01204-3     Document Type: Chapter

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