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Borderline radiocarbon
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 March 2014
Abstract
Radiocarbon dating of peat has its intrinsic problems. This is often caused by mobile organic fractions. For the Weichselian Pleniglacial, another methodological problem arises: the limit of the 14C dating method. This is discussed in terms of bulk (i.e. non-selected material, generally dated conventionally) vs AMS (i.e. selected botanical remains) dates, contamination, background and calibration, guided by a series of peat samples from the Belgian/Dutch border.
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