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Radiocarbon dating of organic- and carbonate-carbon in Genyornis and Dromaius eggshell using stepped combustion and stepped acidification.

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2003

Authors

Bird, Michael
Turney, C S M
Fifield, L Keith
Smith, M A
Miller, Gifford Hubbs
Roberts, Richard
Magee, John

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Pergamon-Elsevier Ltd

Abstract

A technique for determining the radiocarbon age of both organic-carbon and carbonate-carbon in the eggshell of the large flightless birds Genyornis newtoni (now extinct) and Dromaius novaehollandiae (extant emu) is presented here. Stepped combustion (for

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Keywords: Biomarkers; Carbon; Carbonates; Luminescence; Radioisotopes; Statistical methods; Stimulated emission; Stepped acidification; Geochronology; acidification; carbonate; eggshell; methodology; organic carbon; radiocarbon dating; Dromaius; Dromaius novaeholla

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http://hdl.handle.net/1885/87836

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ANU Research Publications

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Quaternary Science Reviews

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10.1016/S0277-3791(03)00151-3

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