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Holocene Marine Reservoir Time Series ΔR Values from Cedros Island, Baja California

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2016

R E Taylor ,
John Southon  and
Matthew R Des Lauriers
R E Taylor*
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, University of California, Riverside, California 92521, USA, and Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90021, USA Keck Accelerator Mass Spectrometry Laboratory, Department of Earth System Science, University of California, Irvine, California 92697, USA
John Southon
Affiliation:
Keck Accelerator Mass Spectrometry Laboratory, Department of Earth System Science, University of California, Irvine, California 92697, USA
Matthew R Des Lauriers
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, California State University, Northridge, California 91330, USA
*
Corresponding author. Email: retaylor@ucr.edu
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ΔR values have been calculated based on offsets in radiocarbon values exhibited in a series of stratigraphically paired charcoal and marine shell values, ranging from about 300 to 10,000 BP, excavated from archaeological sites on Cedros Island, Baja California, Mexico. Based on this data, there appears to be the equivalent of about an 800-yr range in inferred ΔR values (-400 to 400 yr) exhibited in Holocene-age marine shells from this portion of the central Baja California coast.

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Radiocarbon , Volume 49 , Issue 2 , 2007 , pp. 899 - 904
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Copyright © 2007 by the Arizona Board of Regents on behalf of the University of Arizona 

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