Publication Date:
2022-05-25
Description:
Author Posting. © The Author(s), 2009. This is the author's version of the work. It is posted here by permission of Elsevier B.V. for personal use, not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms 268 (2010): 910-913, doi:10.1016/j.nimb.2009.10.062.
Description:
Several wood samples collected from Dorslandboom, a large African baobab (Adansonia
digitata L.) from Namibia, were investigated by AMS radiocarbon dating subsequent to
pretreatment and, alternatively, without pretreatment. The comparative statistical
evaluation of results showed that there were no significant differences between fraction
modern values and radiocarbon dates of the samples analyzed after pretreatment and
without pretreatment, respectively. The radiocarbon date of the oldest sample was 993 ± 20
BP. Dating results also revealed that Dorslandboom is a multi-generation tree, with several
stems showing different ages.
Description:
This material is based on work supported by U.S. National Science
Foundation under Cooperative Agreement OCE-022828996. Part of the research was
supported by grants from the Romanian Academy and the Romanian National University
Research Council (PN II – ID 2354) and also by Nova Research Inc.
Keywords:
AMS C-14 dating
;
Tropical trees
;
Adansonia digitata
;
Gas ion source
;
Pretreatment
Repository Name:
Woods Hole Open Access Server
Type:
Preprint
Format:
application/pdf
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