Published 1981
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An assessment of variability in radiocarbon dating
Description
A series of replicate experiments, involving analysis of homogenized wood and identical tree-ring sections, suggests that the 14C counting error in radiocarbon dating quantifies only part of the total variability of measurement. Statistical modelling implies that a more realistic assessment of error is provided by a value approximately three times the counting error. The incorporation of this more realistic measure of variability into an appropriate procedure for calibrating a single date and for matching a floating chronology to a master chronology is described. (author)
Additional details
Publishing Information
- Publisher
- IAEA.
- Imprint Place
- Vienna
- ISBN
- 92-0-030081-2
- Imprint Title
- Methods of low-level counting and spectrometry
- Imprint Pagination
- 561 p.
- Series
- Proceedings series.
- Journal Page Range
- p. 371-392.
Conference
- Title
- International symposium on methods of low-level counting and spectrometry.
- Dates
- 6 - 10 Apr 1981.
- Place
- Berlin, Germany, F.R.
INIS
- Country of Publication
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- Country of Input or Organization
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- INIS RN
- 13650145
- Subject category
- S58: GEOSCIENCES;
- Resource subtype / Literary indicator
- Conference, Numerical Data
- Descriptors DEI
- CALIBRATION; CARBON 14; ERRORS; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; ISOTOPE DATING; LOW LEVEL COUNTING; STATISTICAL MODELS
- Descriptors DEC
- AGE ESTIMATION; BETA DECAY RADIOISOTOPES; BETA-MINUS DECAY RADIOISOTOPES; CARBON ISOTOPES; COUNTING TECHNIQUES; DATA; EVEN-EVEN NUCLEI; INFORMATION; ISOTOPES; LIGHT NUCLEI; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUCLEI; NUMERICAL DATA; RADIOISOTOPES; YEARS LIVING RADIOISOTOPES
Optional Information
- Secondary number(s)
- IAEA-SM--252/2.