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U. S. Geological Survey Radiocarbon Dates V

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2016

Meyer Rubin
Affiliation:
U. S. Geological Survey, Washington, D. C.
Corrinne Alexander
Affiliation:
U. S. Geological Survey, Washington, D. C.
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The dates listed herein have been determined at the U. S. Geological Survey radiocarbon laboratory at Washington since our last date list (USGS IV) and up to the end of 1959. Acetylene continues to be the gas of our choice. Each sample is run for a period of two days in two separate counters with separate electronics. The modern standard used is wood grown in the 19th century, and the ages and errors have been computed in the same manner as before. Pretreatment of wood, charcoal, and peat samples by boiling in acid, alkali, and acid again, is standard procedure.

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