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The Reliability of Radiocarbon Dating Buried Soils

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2016

L. A. Orlova  and
V. A. Panychev
L. A. Orlova
Affiliation:
United Institute of Geology, Geophysics and Mineralogy, Universitetsky pr., 3, Novosibirsk 90, 630090 Russia
V. A. Panychev
Affiliation:
United Institute of Geology, Geophysics and Mineralogy, Universitetsky pr., 3, Novosibirsk 90, 630090 Russia
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Abstract

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Variable 14C ages of paleosol organic matter (OM) cause difficulties in interpreting 14C data. We attempt to determine the reliability of OM 14C dates by examining different carbon-containing materials from soil horizons and paleosol fractions.

Type
Methodological Studies
Information
Radiocarbon , Volume 35 , Issue 3 , 1993 , pp. 369 - 377
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Copyright © The American Journal of Science 

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