Radiocarbon applications in environmental and earth sciences
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Date
2013-07-10
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The University of Western Australia
Abstract
Radiocarbon or 14C is one of the most important cosmogenic radionuclides for
building reliable chronologies for various materials and archives for the study of
environmental and climatic changes for the past 50 ka. Radiocarbon is also used as a
powerful tracer of the carbon cycle and climatic systems. After a short discussion on recent advances in accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) 14C analysis, this paper highlights several applications of radiocarbon in earth and environmental sciences that have been carried out at ANSTO.
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Radioisotopes, Climatic change, Mass spectroscopy, Accelerators, ANSTO, Carbon
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Hua, Q. (2013). Radiocarbon Applications in Environmental and Earth Sciences. Paper presented at the The 12th Australasian Environmental Isotope Conference, Perth, Australia, 10-12 July 2013.