AMS Radiocarbon Dating of Ice: Validity of the Technique and the Problem of Cosmogenic <i>In-Situ</i> Production in Polar Ice Cores

A. T. Wilson, D. J. Donahue

Radiocarbon · 1992 · 18 citations · 4 references

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Abstract

In the “sublimation technique,” carbon dioxide entrapped in ice is recovered by sublimation, converted to graphite and ratio of 14 C/ 13 C in the CO 2 determined by AMS measurements. We describe here several experiments performed to check the validity of such measurements and to study the effect of cosmogenically produced in-situ 14 C on the measurements.

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