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Learning from the Wood Samples in ICS, TIRI, FIRI, VIRI, and SIRI

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 April 2019

E M Scott Open the ORCID record for E M Scott [Opens in a new window] ,
G T Cook ,
P Naysmith  and
R A Staff
E M Scott*
Affiliation:
School of Maths and Statistics, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, G128QQ Scotland, UK
G T Cook
Affiliation:
SUERC Radiocarbon Dating Laboratory, Scottish Universities Environmental Research Centre, East Kilbride, South Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK
P Naysmith
Affiliation:
SUERC Radiocarbon Dating Laboratory, Scottish Universities Environmental Research Centre, East Kilbride, South Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK
R A Staff
Affiliation:
SUERC Radiocarbon Dating Laboratory, Scottish Universities Environmental Research Centre, East Kilbride, South Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK
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*Corresponding author. Email: [email protected].
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Abstract

Each of the laboratory intercomparisons (from ICS onwards) has included wood samples, many of them dendrochronologically dated. In the early years, as a result of the majority of laboratories being radiometric, these samples were typically blocks of 20–40 rings, but more recently (SIRI), they have been single ring samples. The sample ages have spanned background through to modern. In some intercomparisons, we have examined different wood pretreatment effects, in others the focus has been on background samples. In this paper, we illustrate what we have learned from these extensive intercomparisons involving wood samples and how the results contribute to the global IntCal effort.

Keywords

dendro-dated woodintercomparison
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Conference Paper
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Radiocarbon , Volume 61 , Issue 5: Radiocarbon 2018 Conference Proceedings Trondheim, Norway, June 17–22, 2018 Part 1 of 2 , October 2019 , pp. 1293 - 1304
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© 2019 by the Arizona Board of Regents on behalf of the University of Arizona 

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Selected Papers from the 23rd International Radiocarbon Conference, Trondheim, Norway, 17–22 June, 2018

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