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Calculating Isotope Ratios and Nuclide Concentrations for In Situ Cosmogenic 14C Analyses

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 July 2016

Kristina Hippe  and
Nathaniel A Lifton
Kristina Hippe*
Affiliation:
Laboratory of Ion Beam Physics, ETH Zürich, Otto-Stern-Weg 5, 8093 Zürich, Switzerland Institute of Geochemistry and Petrology, ETH Zürich, Clausiusstrasse 25, 8092 Zürich, Switzerland
Nathaniel A Lifton
Affiliation:
Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences and Department of Physics, Purdue University, 550 Stadium Mall Drive, West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA. Email: nlifton@purdue.edu
*
Corresponding author. Email: hippe@phys.ethz.ch.
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Abstract

In situ radiocarbon inorganic production and retention pathways are distinct from those of the more commonly used traditional organic/atmospheric 14C. In addition, a growing number of laboratories are extracting in situ cosmogenic 14C from quartz, using a variety of analytical techniques. As such, a flexible yet internally consistent set of procedures for data reduction that recognizes the unique nature of the in situ14C system is essential for reliable comparison of results among laboratories. This article thus presents a brief data reduction framework that can accommodate differences in both AMS and laboratory analytical techniques.

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Radiocarbon , Volume 56 , Issue 3 , 2014 , pp. 1167 - 1174
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Copyright © 2014 by the Arizona Board of Regents on behalf of the University of Arizona 

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