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14C Ages and Magnetic Stratigraphy in Three Australian Maars

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2016

C E Barton
Affiliation:
Research School of Earth Sciences, Radiocarbon Dating Laboratory, Australian National University, P O Box 4, Canberra, Australia
H A Polach
Affiliation:
Research School of Earth Sciences, Radiocarbon Dating Laboratory, Australian National University, P O Box 4, Canberra, Australia
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Abstract

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Detailed radiocarbon chronologies from three volcanic crater lakes (maars) in southeast Australia are examined in relationship to the magnetic mineral stratigraphies within lakes, and the magnetic secular variation stratigraphy between lakes. Some implications for magnetic dating are considered.

Type
Quaternary
Copyright
Copyright © The American Journal of Science

Footnotes

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Present address: Geophysics Department, University of Edinburgh, King's Buildings, Edinburgh, EH9 3JZ, Scotland

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