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A Review of the Operation of the Oxford Radiocarbon Accelerator Unit

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2016

R J Batten
Affiliation:
Research Laboratory for Archaeology and the History of Art, Oxford University, 6 Keble Road, Oxford OX1 3QJ, England
C R Bronk
Affiliation:
Research Laboratory for Archaeology and the History of Art, Oxford University, 6 Keble Road, Oxford OX1 3QJ, England
Richard Gillespie*
Affiliation:
Research Laboratory for Archaeology and the History of Art, Oxford University, 6 Keble Road, Oxford OX1 3QJ, England
J A J Gowlett
Affiliation:
Research Laboratory for Archaeology and the History of Art, Oxford University, 6 Keble Road, Oxford OX1 3QJ, England
Rem Hedges
Affiliation:
Research Laboratory for Archaeology and the History of Art, Oxford University, 6 Keble Road, Oxford OX1 3QJ, England
Colin Perry
Affiliation:
Research Laboratory for Archaeology and the History of Art, Oxford University, 6 Keble Road, Oxford OX1 3QJ, England
*
Department of Geosciences, University of Arizona, Tucson
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Abstract

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We describe here the general operation of the Oxford Radiocarbon Accelerator Laboratory which has now been dating routinely for 18 months.

Type
I. AMS Techniques
Copyright
Copyright © The American Journal of Science 

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