Radiocarbon Dating with the Utrecht Tandem Accelerator

Progress in Radiocarbon Dating with the Chalk River Mp Tandem Accelerator

Accelerator-based radioisotope dating is an important development for situations where sample sizes are limited and for isotopes of very long half-life. The technique can also be used for studying isotopic ratios of stable isotopes of possible interest in geochemical or other disciplines. Chalk River work in this field is motivated by its application to ground water dating in connection with nu...

Radiocarbon Dating.

4.4 Radiocarbon dating of the Iceman Ötzi with accelerator mass spectrometry

On 19 September 1991 an extraordinary archaeological discovery was made at a high-altitude mountain pass (Tisenjoch, 3210 m) of the Ötztal Alps near the Austrian-Italian border. Two mountain hikers from Nürnberg, Erika and Helmut Simon, after having scaled the Finail Peak (3516 m) that day were on their way back to the Similaun mountain hut (3019 m) located at the lowest part of a mountain ridg...

Radiocarbon Dating: The Continuing Revolution

Radiocarbon (I4C) dating, now in its fifth decade of general use, continues to be the most widely employed method of inferring chronometric age for late Pleistocene and Holocene age materials recovered from archeological contexts. Over the last decade, several technical advances in I4C studies have provided contexts for a number of significant applications in archeology that were previously eit...

Radiocarbon Dating of Ground Water

Radiocarbon dating of ground water is used in combination with the primary measurements of classical hydrological and chemical analyses. Radiocarbon dating will produce the best results when it involves multiple measurements or sequential sampling. The most useful data come from these comparisons and not from absolute ages. In the case of multiple measurements, the apparent ages of the ground w...