Optical dating of flowstone and silty carbonate-rich sediments from Panxian Dadong Cave, Guizhou, southwestern China

Quaternary Geochronology

Volumn 30, Issue , 2015, Pages 479-486

  Zhang, Jia Fu ^a   Huang, Wei Wen ^b   Hu, Yue ^b   Yang, Shi Xia ^b   Zhou, Li Ping ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY AND PALEOANTHROPOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Cave sediment; Flowstone; Middle Pleistocene site; Optical dating; Panxian Dadong; Radioactive equilibrium; Silty carbonate rich sediment

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGY; CAVE DEPOSIT; GEOCHRONOLOGY; LUMINESCENCE DATING; PALEOLITHIC; PLEISTOCENE; QUARTZ;

CHINA; GUIZHOU; PANXIAN DADONG;

AILUROPODA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 84947042595     PISSN: 18711014     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quageo.2015.01.011     Document Type: Article

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