Bomb Radiocarbon Dating - Sharks
Chapter 14: Assessing the Age and Growth of Chondrichthyan Fishes
Published 2012
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In this book, I contributed to Chapter 14 by rewriting the section on the use of Bomb Radiocarbon Dating (Section 14.4.6). This section provides a synopsis of the latest in the field with regard to how an application of this technique can work and the circumstances and/or assumptions necessary for performing the study. While bomb radiocarbon dating can be relatively straight forward with teleost fish otoliths, elasmobranch studies are much more complicated and are currently a work in progress.
