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Radiocarbon Dating of Anodonta in the Mojave River Basin

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2016

Rainer Berger  and
Norman Meek
Rainer Berger
Affiliation:
Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, and Department of Geography, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90024 USA
Norman Meek
Affiliation:
Department of Geography, California State University, San Bernardino, California 92407 USA
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Abstract

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A 450-year correction is required to make Anodonta14C dates comparable to 14C dates on other materials in the Mojave River basin. The internal stratigraphic consistency of 34 conventional 14C dates on Anodonta in this drainage basin indicates that such dates are usually reliable. The validity of most conventional 14C dates in the Mojave River basin may be a product of the basin's crystalline bedrock in a region usually typified by thick Paleozoic carbonate sections.

Type
II. Applied Isotope Geochemistry
Information
Radiocarbon , Volume 34 , Issue 3: Proceedings of the 14th International Radiocarbon Conference , 1992 , pp. 578 - 584
Copyright
Copyright © The American Journal of Science 

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