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Contamination Studies on Mollusk Shell Samples

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2016

Tomasz Goslar  and
Mieczysław F Pazdur
Tomasz Goslar
Affiliation:
Radiocarbon Laboratory, Institute of Physics, Silesian Technical University, Krzywoustego 2, PL-44-100 Gliwice, Poland
Mieczysław F Pazdur
Affiliation:
Radiocarbon Laboratory, Institute of Physics, Silesian Technical University, Krzywoustego 2, PL-44-100 Gliwice, Poland
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Abstract

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A series of shell samples has been studied to determine the magnitude and mechanisms of carbon exchange between shells and their environment. Laboratory contamination experiments included the storing of shell samples in acid and calcareous environments of different 14C concentrations as well as studies of carbon exchange in the course of thermal recrystallization in solid state in an atomosphere of carbon dioxide. The applicability of differential thermal analysis to studies of the structure and texture of shells is discussed.

Type
Research Article
Information
Radiocarbon , Volume 27 , Issue 1 , 1985 , pp. 33 - 42
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Copyright © The American Journal of Science 

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