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14C Dating with the Icels Liquid Scintillation Counting System Using Fixed-Energy Balance Counting Window Method

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2016

Konrad Tudyka  and
Anna Pazdur
Konrad Tudyka*
Affiliation:
Centre of Excellence-Gliwice Absolute Dating Methods Centre, Institute of Physics, Silesian University of Technology, Kxzywoustcgo 2,44-100 Gliwice, Poland
Anna Pazdur
Affiliation:
Centre of Excellence-Gliwice Absolute Dating Methods Centre, Institute of Physics, Silesian University of Technology, Kxzywoustcgo 2,44-100 Gliwice, Poland
*
Corresponding author. Email: [email protected].
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This article presents an application of a fixed-energy balance counting window in radiocarbon dating of geological peat samples. We determine a fixed-energy balance counting window with an inexpensive liquid scintillation counting ICELS system. We show long-term modern biosphere standard records that show stability sufficient for dating samples up to approximately 30,000 14C yr BP. We then compare our results to ones obtained previously using a Quantulus 1220™.

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Radiocarbon , Volume 54 , Issue 2 , 2012 , pp. 267 - 273
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Copyright © 2012 by the Arizona Board of Regents on behalf of the University of Arizona 

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