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Lichenometric dating: Science or pseudo-science?—Comment to the paper published by Osborn, McCarthy, LaBrie, and Burke, Quaternary Research 83 (2015), 1-12

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Michael Aaron O’Neal
Michael Aaron O’Neal*
Affiliation:
Dept. of Geological Sciences, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716, USA
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E-mail address:oneal@udel.edu.
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Keywords

LichenometryLichenometric dating

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Letter to the Editor
Information
Quaternary Research , Volume 86 , Issue 2 , September 2016 , pp. 242 - 243
Copyright
Copyright © American Quaternary Association 2016

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