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Converting AMS Data to Radiocarbon Values: Considerations and Conventions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2016

A P McNichol ,
A J T Jull  and
G S Burr
A P McNichol
Affiliation:
NOSAMS, Department of Geology and Geophysics, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, Massachusetts 02543 USA. Email: amcnichol@whoi.edu.
A J T Jull
Affiliation:
NSF Arizona AMS Facility, Physics Building, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721 USA
G S Burr
Affiliation:
NSF Arizona AMS Facility, Physics Building, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721 USA
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Abstract

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We summarize the basic operation of accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) systems used to measure radiocarbon and discuss the calculations used to convert AMS output to 14C data.

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Type
II. Getting More from the Data
Information
Radiocarbon , Volume 43 , Issue 2A: Proceedings of the 17th International Radiocarbon Conference (Part 1 of 3) , 2001 , pp. 313 - 320
Copyright
Copyright © The Arizona Board of Regents on behalf of the University of Arizona 

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