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Hiroshima University Radiocarbon Dates I West and South Coasts of Sri Lanka*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2016

Jinadasa Katupotha
Jinadasa Katupotha*
Affiliation:
Department of Geography, Hiroshima University, 1-1-89, Higashi, Senda Machi, Naka-ku, Hiroshima 730, Japan
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The following list reports radiocarbon dates of geologic samples collected from the west, southwest and south coasts of Sri Lanka during August 1985. The tidal range on Sri Lanka coasts is very small, the lowest neap at − 0.48m and highest spring at + 0.52m from msl (data based on the standard point of Colombo, datum level 0.38m below msl).

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Radiocarbon , Volume 30 , Issue 1 , 1988 , pp. 125 - 128
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Copyright © The American Journal of Science 

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