Radiocarbon After Four Decades: An Interdisciplinary Perspective

Title\r......Page 3
Foreword\r......Page 5
CONTENTS\r......Page 11
Contributors\r......Page 15
Editors\r......Page 18
Preface\r......Page 19
1. The Early Years with Libby at Chicago: A Retrospective\r......Page 21
2. The Early Radiocarbon Years: Personal Reflections\r......Page 29
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03. Calibration of the Radiocarbon Time Scale, 2500-5000 BC......Page 37
04. The History of Dendrochronology and Radiocarbon Calibration......Page 52
05. The Present Status of Understanding of the Long-Period Spectrum of Radiocarbon......Page 68
06. Glacial-to-Interglacial Changes in Ocean Circulation......Page 80
07. Reconstruction of Radiocarbon Distribution in the Glacial Ocean......Page 93
08. Radiocarbon Fluctuations and the Geomagnetic Field......Page 111
09. Solar Forcing of Global Climate Change?\r......Page 135
10. Radiocarbon and Astrophysical-Geophysical Phenomena......Page 148
11. Cosmogenic in Situ Radiocarbon on the Earth......Page 164
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12. Sample Treatment Strategies in Radiocarbon Dating......Page 182
13. CO2 Gas Proportional Counting in Radiocarbon Dating - Review and Perspective......Page 201
14. Four Decades of Progress in 14C Dating by Liquid Scintillation Counting and Spectrometry......Page 215
15. The History of AMS, its Advantages over Decay Counting: Applications and Prospects\r......Page 231
16. Radiocarbon Accelerator Mass Spectrometry: Background, Precision and Accuracy\r......Page 247
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17. Chemical and Isotopic Constraints on 14C Dating of Groundwater......Page 258
18. Effects of Parameter Uncertainty in Modeling 14C in Groundwater......Page 278
19. Numerical Modeling with Groundwater Ages......Page 292
20. Natural Radiocarbon in Dissolved Organic Carbon in Groundwater......Page 304
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21. The Impact of Radiocarbon Dating on North African Archaeology......Page 326
22. The Impact of Radiocarbon Dating on Near Eastern Prehistory......Page 340
23. Radiocarbon Dating and the Prehistory of Sub-Saharan Africa......Page 351
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24. Contributions of Radiocarbon Dating to the Geochronology of the Peopling of the New World......Page 370
25. Radiocarbon Dating of Bone: To Collagen and Beyond\r......Page 390
26. The Role of Radiocarbon Dating in Maya Archaeology: Four Decades of Research\r......Page 418
27. Libby’s UCLA Radiocarbon Laboratory: Contributions to Archaeology\r......Page 436
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28. Determining Recurrence Intervals of Great Subduction Zone Earthquakes in Southern Alaska by Radiocarbon Dating......Page 451
29. Major Contributions of Radiocarbon Dating to Palynology: Past and Future\r......Page 469
30. Origin of Global Meltwater Pulses......Page 488
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31. Radiocarbon in Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide and Methane: Global Distribution and Trends\r......Page 518
32. Environmental Impact of Atmospheric Carbon-14 Emissions Resulting from the Nuclear Energy Cycle......Page 534
33. Mankind’s Perturbations of Particulate Carbon......Page 550
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34. Radiocarbon in the Biological Sciences......Page 585
35. New Biomedical Applications of Radiocarbon......Page 595
Index\r......Page 605