Murray-Darling basin freshwater shells: Riverine reservoir effect

Richard Gillespie; David Fink; Fiona Petchey; Geraldine Jacobsen

doi:10.1002/j.1834-4453.2009.tb00053.x

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
Number of pages	5
Journal	Archaeology in Oceania
Volume	44
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1002/j.1834-4453.2009.tb00053.x
Publication status	Published - Jul 2009

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