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Murray‐Darling basin freshwater shells: riverine reservoir effect
Author(s) -
GILLESPIE RICHARD,
FINK DAVID,
PETCHEY FIONA,
JACOBSEN GERALDINE
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
archaeology in oceania
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1834-4453
pISSN - 0728-4896
DOI - 10.1002/j.1834-4453.2009.tb00053.x
Subject(s) - radiocarbon dating , structural basin , archaeology , pleistocene , geology , oceanography , geography , paleontology
We report carbon isotope measurements on pre‐bomb museum samples of freshwater mussel shells collected alive from riverine locations in New South Wales, Australia. The calculated reservoir ages, ranging from −60 to +112 years, are much smaller than those for Australian marine shells and not considered significant for the radiocarbon dating of Late Pleistocene freshwater shells from the Murray‐Darling Basin.