The Erlangen AMS Facility and Its Applications in 14C Sediment and Bone Dating
Issue Date
1998-01-01Keywords
Bavaria Germanycores
Germany
organic acids
humic acids
vegetation
Holocene
microfossils
miospores
palynomorphspollenCentral Europeaccelerator mass spectroscopymass spectroscopyspectroscopypaleoclimatologyPleistoceneorganic compoundsEuropepeatsample preparationbonessedimentsCenozoicQuaternaryC 14carbondatesisotopesradioactive isotopesabsolute age
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Kretschmer, W., Anton, G., Benz, M., Blasche, S., Erler, G., Finckh, E., ... & Küster, H.. (1998). The Erlangen AMS facility and its applications in 14C sediment and bone dating. Radiocarbon, 40(1), 231-238.Journal
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From the 16th International Radiocarbon Conference held in Gronigen, Netherlands, June 16-20, 1997.Additional Links
http://radiocarbon.webhost.uits.arizona.edu/Abstract
We report here on the radiocarbon dating of sediment samples from Bavaria using the Erlangen accelerator mass spectrometry facility. The absolute time calibration of different sediment profiles, together with pollen analyses, should establish a better chronology of climate and vegetation during Holocene in Bavaria. For an enhanced reliability of sediment dating, we measured different fractions such as bulk sediments, pollen grains, macrofossils and humic acids. For these fraction, we describe the separation methods and conversion to sputter targets. Furthermore, we discuss the sample preparation for the dating of bones and present some results.Type
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