Hostname: page-component-848d4c4894-4hhp2 Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-05-01T07:03:08.499Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Radiocarbon Dating at the University of Washington I∗

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2016

T. F. Dorn ,
A. W. Fairhall ,
W. R. Schell  and
Y. Takashima
T. F. Dorn*
Affiliation:
Department of Chemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
A. W. Fairhall
Affiliation:
Department of Chemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
W. R. Schell
Affiliation:
Department of Chemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
Y. Takashima*
Affiliation:
Department of Chemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
*
†Now at the Department of Chemistry, The University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee.
‡Permanent address: Department of Chemistry, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan.
Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Extract

Core share and HTML view are not available for this content. However, as you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button.

Beginning in 1955 a C14 dating apparatus was constructed at this University for the purpose of measuring the specific activity of tree rings selected from a specimen of Sequoia wood having 3000 growth rings (Dorn, 1958). The original purpose was to obtain a measure of the half life of C14 by essentially the inverse of C14 dating. For various reasons the project was not completed, and for about a year the apparatus stood idle for lack of financial support. This latter deficiency has now been rectified, at least temporarily, and research with the apparatus has been resumed. Fabrication of a second, 1 L counter is nearing completion.

Type
Research Article
Information
Radiocarbon , Volume 4 , 1962 , pp. 1 - 12
Copyright
Copyright © The American Journal of Science 

References

Anderson, E. C., 1953, The production and distribution of natural radiocarbon: Ann. Rev. Nuclear Sci., v. 2, p. 63–77.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Barendsen, G. W., Deevey, E. S., and Gralenski, L. J., 1957, Yale natural radiocarbon measurements III: Science, v. 126, p. 908–919.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Carlson, R. L., 1960, Chronology and culture change in the San Juan Islands, Wash: Am. Antiquity, v. 25, no. 4, p. 562–586.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Crandell, D. R., Mullineaux, D. R., and Waldron, H. H., 1958, Pleistocene sequence in southeastern part of the Puget Sound, Washington: Am. Jour. Sci., v. 256, p. 384–397.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Crane, H. R., and Griffin, J. B., 1960, University of Michigan radiocarbon dates V: Radioc. Supp., v. 2, p. 31–48.Google Scholar
Dorn, T. F., 1958, A radiocarbon dating system; Measurements of the C14 activity of Sequoia rings: Ph.D. thesis, Univ. of Wash. [unpub.], 144 p.Google Scholar
Douglass, A. E., 1920, Climatic cycles and tree growth. A study of the annual rings of trees in relation to climatic and solar activity: Carnegie Inst. of Wash. Publ. no. 289, v. 2, p. 26.Google Scholar
Fairhall, A. W., Schell, W. R., and Takashima, Y., 1961, Apparatus for methane synthesis for radiocarbon dating: Rev. Sci. Instruments, v. 32, no. 3, p. 323–325.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Harteck, P., and Dondes, S., 1955, Decomposition of carbon dioxide by ionizing radiation: Jour. Phys. Chemistry, pt. 1, v. 23, p. 902–908.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Heusser, C. J., 1953, Radiocarbon dating of the thermal maximum in southeastern Alaska: Ecology, v. 34, p. 637–640.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Hogan, A. J., 1954, Decomposition of CO2 by ionizing radiation: U. S. Atomic Energy Commission Doc. SO-3255, 28 p. [unclassified].Google Scholar
Kulp, J. L., Feely, H. W., and Tryon, L. E., 1951, Lamont natural radiocarbon measurements I: Science, v. 114, p. 565–568.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Libby, W., 1955, Radiocarbon dating: Chicago, Univ. of Chicago Press, p. 5.Google Scholar
Lind, S. C., and Bardwell, D. C., 1925, The chemical action of gaseous ions produced by alpha particles. VI. Reactions of the oxides of carbon: Am. Chem. Soc. Jour., v. 47, p. 2675–2697.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Mann, W. B., Marlow, W. F., and Hughes, E. E., 1961, The half life of C14 : Internat. Jour. Applied Radiation and Isotopes, v. 11, no. 2, p. 57–67.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Münnich, K. O., Ostlund, H. G., and deVries, H., 1958, Carbon-14 activity during the past 5,000 years: Nature, v. 182, no. 4647, p. 1432–1433.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Pandow, M., MacKay, C., and Wolfgang, R., 1960, The reaction of atomic carbon with oxygen: significance for the natural radiocarbon cycle: Jour. Inorg. Nuclear Chemistry, v. 14, p. 153–158.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Preston, R. S., Person, E., and Deevey, E. S., 1955, Yale natural radiocarbon measurements II: Science, v. 122, p. 954–960.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Ralph, E. K., and Stukenrath, R., 1960, Carbon-14 measurements of known age samples: Nature, v. 188, no. 4746, p. 185–187.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Sceva, J. E., 1950, Preliminary report on the ground water resources of southwestern Skagit County, Washington: U. S. [Dept. of Interior] Geol. Survey, State of Washington, Ground-water Rept., v. 1, 40 p.Google Scholar
Stranks, D. R., 1958, The radiation induced exchange between carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide: Second U. N. Conf. on Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy Proc., v. 7, p. 362–370.Google Scholar
Suess, H. E., 1961, Personal communication.Google Scholar
Watt, D. E., Ramsden, D., and Wilson, H. W., 1961, The half life of C14 : Internat. Jour. Applied Radiation and Isotopes, v. 11, no. 2, p. 68–74.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Willis, H. E., Tauber, H., and Münnich, K. O., 1960, Variations in the atmospheric radiocarbon concentration over the past 1300 years: Am. Jour. Sci., Radioc. Supp., v. 2, p. 1–4.Google Scholar