A Revised Chronology for Mississippi River Subdeltas

@article{Trnqvist1996ARC,
  title={A Revised Chronology for Mississippi River Subdeltas},
  author={Torbj{\"o}rn E. T{\"o}rnqvist and Tristram R. Kidder and Whitney J. Autin and Klaas van der Borg and Arie F. M. de Jong and Cornelis J. W. Klerks and Els M. A. Snijders and Joep E. A. Storms and Remke L. van Dam and Michael C Wiemann},
  journal={Science},
  year={1996},
  volume={273},
  pages={1693 - 1696}
}
Radiocarbon measurements by accelerator mass spectrometry relating to three of the four late Holocene Mississippi River subdeltas yielded consistent results and were found to differ by up to 2000 carbon-14 years from previously inferred ages. These geological dataare in agreement with archaeological carbon-14 data and stratigraphic ages based on ceramic seriation and were used to develop a revised chronologic framework, which has implications for prehistoric human settlement patterns, coastal… 
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