Current pretreatment methods for ams radiocarbon dating at the oxford radiocarbon accelerator unit (orau)

Radiocarbon

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 103-112

  Brock, Fiona ^a   Higham, Thomas ^a   Ditchfield, Peter ^a   Ramsey, Christopher Bronk ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

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INSTRUMENTATION; RADIOCARBON DATING; THEORETICAL STUDY;

EID: 77953655023     PISSN: 00338222     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0033822200045069     Document Type: Article

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