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Nuclear and chemical dating techniques : interpreting the environmental record : based on a symposium jointly sponsored by the Divisions of Nuclear Chemistry and Technology, Geochemistry, and History of Chemistry at the 179th meeting of the American Chemical Society, Houston, Texas, March 24-25, 1980

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Nuclear and chemical dating techniques : interpreting the environmental record : based on a symposium jointly sponsored by the Divisions of Nuclear Chemistry and Technology, Geochemistry, and History of Chemistry at the 179th meeting of the American Chemical Society, Houston, Texas, March 24-25, 1980 / Lloyd A. Currie, editor.
Publication
Washington, D.C. : American Chemical Society, 1982.

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Additional Authors
  • Currie, Lloyd A., 1930-
  • American Chemical Society. Division of Nuclear Chemistry and Technology.
  • American Chemical Society. Division of Geochemistry.
  • American Chemical Society. Division of the History of Chemistry.
  • American Chemical Society. Meeting (179th : 1980 : Houston, Tex.)
Description
xi, 516 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
Series Statement
ACS symposium series, 0097-6156 ; 176
Uniform Title
ACS symposium series ; 176.
Subject
  • Geochronometry > Congresses
  • Archaeological dating > Congresses
  • Geology
  • Archaeology
  • Geological time > Congresses
  • Geology
  • Archaeology
  • geology
  • archaeology
  • Geological time
  • Archaeological dating
  • Geochronometry
Genre/Form
Conference papers and proceedings
Note
  • "Based on a symposium jointly sponsored by the Divisions of Nuclear Chemistry and Technology, Geochemistry, and History of Chemistry at the 179th meeting of the American Chemical Society, Houston, Texas, March 24-25, 1980."
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographies and index.
Contents
Nuclear dating : an historical perspective / W.F. Libby -- The contribution of radioactive and chemical dating to the understanding of the environmental system / H. Oeschger -- The application of electrostatic tandems to ultrasensitive mass spectrometry and nuclear dating / K.H. Purser, C.J. Russo, R.B. Liebert, H.E. Gove, D. Elmore, R. Ferraro, A.E. Litherland, R.P. Beukens, K.H. Chang, L.R. Kilius, and H.W. Lee -- Techniques for the direct measurement of natural beryllium-10 and carbon-14 with a tandem accelerator / J.R. Southon, D.E. Nelson, R. Korteling, I. Nowikow, E. Hammaren, J. McKay, and D. Burke -- Sample preparation for electrostatic accelerator dating of radiocarbon / Meyer Rubin -- Ion probe magnesium isotopic measurements of allende inclusions / Ian D. Hutcheon -- Krypton-81-krypton dating by mass spectrometry / Kurt Marti -- Laser microprobe argon-39-argon-40 dating of individual mineral grains / O.A. Schaeffer -- Resonance ionization spectroscopy for low-level counting / G.S. Hurst, S.D. Kramer, and B.E. Lehmann -- Counters, accelerators, and chemistry / L.A. Currie and G.A. Klouda -- Dating groundwater : a short review / Stanley N. Davis and Harold W. Bentley -- Sampling and precise dating requirements for extracting isotopic records from three rings / Charles W. Stockton and William R. Boggess -- Fluctuation of atmospheric radiocarbon and the radiocarbon time scale / Paul E. Damon -- Tree thermometers and commodities : historic climate indicators / L.M. Libby and L.J. Pandolfi -- Glaciochemical dating techniques / Michael M. Herron -- Preliminary studies on dating polar ice by carbon-14 and radon-222 / E.L. Fireman and T.L. Norris -- Dating recent (200 years) events in sediments from lakes, estuaries, and deep ocean environments using lead-210 / William R. Schell -- Deep-sea sedimentation : processes and chronology / S. Krishnaswami and D. Lal -- The antiquity of carbon / Cyril Ponnamperuma and Elaine Friebele -- Results of a dating attempt : chemical and physical measurements relevant to the cause of the Cretaceous-Tertiary extinctions / Frank Asaro, Helen V. Michel, Luis W. Alvarez, and Walter Alvarez -- A ceramic compositional interpretation of incense-burner trade in the Palenque Area, Mexico / Ronald L. Bishop, Robert L. Rands, and Garman Harbottle -- The carbon-14 dating of an iron bloom associated with the voyages of Sir Martin Frobisher / Edward V. Sayre, Garman Harbottle, Raymond W. Stoenner, Wilcomb Washburn, Jacqueline S. Olin, and William Fitzhugh -- Problems in the radiocarbon dating of bone / R.E. Taylor -- Absolute dating of travertines from archaeological sites / H.P. Schwarcz -- Guide to chapter contents : techniques and applications.
ISBN
  • 0841206694
  • 9780841206694
LCCN
81020649
OCLC
  • ocm07977280
  • 7977280
  • SCSB-52191
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library