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Announcement of a Further International Intercomparison Exercise

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2016

E. M. Scott
Affiliation:
Department of Statistics, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, G12 8QW Scotland
D. D. Harkness
Affiliation:
NERC 14C Laboratory, SURRC, East Kilbride, Glasgow G75 OQU Scotland
B. F. Miller
Affiliation:
NERC 14C Laboratory, SURRC, East Kilbride, Glasgow G75 OQU Scotland
G. T. Cook
Affiliation:
Radiocarbon Laboratory, SURRC, East Kilbride, Glasgow G75 OQU Scotland
M. S. Baxter
Affiliation:
IAEA Marine Laboratory, MC 98000 Monaco
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Abstract

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Following recommendations of the Glasgow International Workshop on Intercomparison of Radiocarbon Laboratories (Scott, Long & Kra 1990), a further international intercomparison is planned. This new intercomparison is complementary to the existing IAEA intercalibration, and will make use of natural samples whose ages will be unknown to the participants. The study has been funded by the UK Research Councils (SERC and NERC), and samples will be free to all participants. We anticipate that this intercomparison will be ongoing, with distribution of samples in 1992, and presentation of the results at a later meeting. We present here details of the samples available and the time scale of the study. Briefly, we envisage that the new study will be more focused than the ICS (Scott et al. 1986), and will include natural samples in both pretreated and unpretreated forms.

Type
I. Sample Preparation and Measurement Techniques
Copyright
Copyright © The American Journal of Science 

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