A geochemical perspective on Parisian urban history based on U-Th dating, laminae counting and yttrium and REE concentrations of recent carbonates in underground aqueducts

Quaternary Geochronology

Volumn 24, Issue , 2014, Pages 44-53

  Pons Branchu, Edwige ^a   Douville, Eric ^a   Roy Barman, Matthieu ^a   Dumont, Emmanuel ^c   Branchu, Philippe ^c   Thil, François ^a   Frank, Norbert ^a,b   Bordier, Louise ^a   Borst, Wolfgang ^c  

^a LABORATOIRE DES SCIENCES DU CLIMAT ET DE L ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^c CEREMA   (France)

Author keywords

Rare earth elements; Relative chronology; U Th dating; Urban speleothems; Urbanization impact on water quality; Yttrium

Indexed keywords

AQUEDUCT; GEOCHRONOLOGY; HUMAN SETTLEMENT; RARE EARTH ELEMENT; SPELEOTHEM; URANIUM SERIES DATING; URBAN DEVELOPMENT; URBAN HISTORY; WATER QUALITY; YTTRIUM;

FRANCE; ILE DE FRANCE; PARIS; VILLE DE PARIS;

EID: 84908351420     PISSN: 18711014     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quageo.2014.08.001     Document Type: Article

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