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The 2000 Radiocarbon Varve/Comparison Issue

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2016

Johannes van der Plicht*
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Centre for Isotope Research, Radiocarbon Laboratory, Groningen University, Nijenborgh 4, 9747 AG Groningen, the Netherlands. Email: plicht@phys.rug.nl
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For radiocarbon calibration, the arrow of time is pointing backwards but the entropy does not necessarily decrease in this direction…

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