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The New Nagoya Radiocarbon Laboratory

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2016

Yasushi Muraki
Affiliation:
Solar-Terrestrial Environment Laboratory, Nagoya University, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya 464–01, Japan
Grant Kocharov
Affiliation:
Solar-Terrestrial Environment Laboratory, Nagoya University, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya 464–01, Japan
Tooru Nishiyama
Affiliation:
Solar-Terrestrial Environment Laboratory, Nagoya University, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya 464–01, Japan
Yukiko Naruse
Affiliation:
Solar-Terrestrial Environment Laboratory, Nagoya University, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya 464–01, Japan
Takuya Murata
Affiliation:
Solar-Terrestrial Environment Laboratory, Nagoya University, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya 464–01, Japan
Kimiaki Masuda
Affiliation:
Solar-Terrestrial Environment Laboratory, Nagoya University, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya 464–01, Japan
Kh. A. Arslanov*
Affiliation:
Solar-Terrestrial Environment Laboratory, Nagoya University, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya 464–01, Japan
*
2On leave from Geographical Research Institute of St. Petersburg University, St. Petersburg 199004, Russia
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A liquid scintillation counting apparatus that enables highly accurate measurements of 14C has been constructed at the Solar-Terrestrial Environment Laboratory, Nagoya University. The main aim of the project is high precision year-by-year measurements of the 14C content in tree rings of an old cedar tree from Yaku Island, Japan. We present the results of 14C measurements on tree rings from the Agematsu region for recent decades to confirm the validity of the system.

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Part 1: Methods
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