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Accelerator Radiocarbon Dating at SFU

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2016

D E Nelson,
J S Vogel,
J R Southon and
T A Brown
D E Nelson
Affiliation:
Archaeology Department, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC V5A1S6, Canada
J S Vogel
Affiliation:
Archaeology Department, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC V5A1S6, Canada
J R Southon
Affiliation:
Archaeology Department, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC V5A1S6, Canada
T A Brown
Affiliation:
Archaeology Department, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC V5A1S6, Canada
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Abstract

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The Simon Fraser University accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) facility has now been in semi-routine use since the beginning of 1985. The advantages and limitations for 14C dating are described.

Information

Type
I. AMS Techniques
Information
Radiocarbon , Volume 28 , Issue 2A , 1986, pp. 215 - 222
Copyright
Copyright © The American Journal of Science 

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