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Isotopic Fractionation in Corn

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2016

J. A. Lowdon
J. A. Lowdon*
Affiliation:
Geological Survey of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
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This study was started during the summer of 1965 because of the discrepancy observed between dates obtained from wood charcoal and charred corn samples collected from the same archaeologic sites. These results are listed in Table 1.

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Research Article
Information
Radiocarbon , Volume 11 , Issue 2 , 1969 , pp. 391 - 393
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Copyright © The American Journal of Science 

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