Murray-Darling basin freshwater shells: riverine reservoir effect

Richard Gillespie; David Fink; Fiona Petchey; Geraldine Jacobsen

Murray-Darling basin freshwater shells: riverine reservoir effect

Richard Gillespie, David Fink, Fiona Petchey, Geraldine Jacobsen

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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.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	107-111
Journal	Archaeology in Oceania
Volume	44
Issue number	2
Publication status	Published - 2009

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Murray-Darling basin freshwater shells: riverine reservoir effect

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