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High Precision Radiocarbon Dating by Liquid Scintillation Counting Applied to Radiocarbon Time-Scale Calibration

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2016

Gordon W Pearson
Gordon W Pearson*
Affiliation:
Palaeoecology Laboratory, The Queen's University of Belfast, Northern Ireland
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Abstract

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The precision quoted on a radiocarbon date is often misleading. Improvement in the accuracy of measurement is discussed together with the use of appropriate precisions. The effect of high accuracy in 14C dating and meaningful precisions are illustrated and applied to radiocarbon time-scale calibration. Intercomparison of such calibrations reveals a significant continuous saw-tooth pattern of short-term periodicity.

Type
Natural 14C Variations
Information
Radiocarbon , Volume 22 , Issue 2 , 1980 , pp. 337 - 345
Copyright
Copyright © The American Journal of Science 

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