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Application of AMS 14C Dating to Ice Core Research

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2016

A T. Wilson
A T. Wilson*
Affiliation:
Department of Geosciences, The University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721 USA
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Abstract

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I describe here the use of the accelerator mass spectrometer (AMS) sublimation technique to 14C-date polar ice cores. An unexpected result of this work has been to extend the understanding of how polar ice sheets entrap and record the past composition of the Earth's atmosphere. This work has led to the discovery of a new phenomenon in which CO2 and other greenhouse gases can be entrapped in cold (never melted) polar ice sheets.

Type
V. Advances in Measurement Techniques
Information
Radiocarbon , Volume 37 , Issue 2 , 1995 , pp. 637 - 641
Copyright
Copyright © the Department of Geosciences, The University of Arizona 

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