Importance of the Radiocarbon Standard Deviation in Determining Relative Sea Levels and Glacial Chronology from East Baffin Island

• Published in: ARCTIC
• Main Author: Andrews, J.T.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 1969
• Subjects: Birds; Winter ecology; Baffin Island; Dater; Ekalugad Fiord; Arctic; Baffin
• Online Access: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/66240

Deals with the problem of error in estimating relative sea levels and glacial chronology in a small area where radiocarbon dates provide some chronological order, but where the precision of radiometric technique does not allow a clear-cut chronology to be developed on that basis alone. An equation i...