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Author:   Ervin Taylor ,  Austin Long ,  Renee S. Kra
Publisher:   Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Imprint:   Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Edition:   Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1992
Dimensions:   Width: 17.80cm , Height: 3.10cm , Length: 25.40cm
Weight:   1.156kg
ISBN:  

9781475742510

ISBN 10:   1475742517
Pages:   596
Publication Date:   14 January 2013
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Historical Perspectives.- 1. The Early Years With Libby at Chicago: A Retrospective.- 2. The Early Radiocarbon Years: Personal Reflections.- The Natural Carbon Cycle.- 3. Calibration of the Radiocarbon Time Scale, 2500–5000 BC.- 4. The History of Dendrochronology and Radiocarbon Calibration.- 5. The Present Status of Understanding of the Long-Period Spectrum of Radiocarbon.- 6. Glacial-to-Interglacial Changes in Ocean Circulation.- 7. Reconstruction of Radiocarbon Distribution in the Glacial Ocean.- 8. Radiocarbon Fluctuations and the Geomagnetic Field.- 9. Solar Forcing of Global Climate Change?.- 10. Radiocarbon and Astrophysical-Geophysical Phenomena.- 11. Cosmogenic In Situ Radiocarbon on the Earth.- Instrumentation and Sample Preparation.- 12. Sample Treatment Strategies in Radiocarbon Dating.- 13. CO2 Gas Proportional Counting in Radiocarbon Dating — Review and Perspective.- 14. Four Decades of Progress in 14C Dating by Liquid Scintillation Counting and Spectrometry.- 15. The History of AMS, Its Advantages Over Decay Counting: Applications and Prospects.- 16. Radiocarbon Accelerator Mass Spectrometry: Background, Precision and Accuracy.- Hydrology.- 17. Chemical and Isotopic Constraints on 14C Dating of Groundwater.- 18. Effects of Parameter Uncertainty in Modeling 14C in Groundwater.- 19. Numerical Modeling With Groundwater Ages.- 20. Natural Radiocarbon in Dissolved Organic Carbon in Groundwater.- Old World Archaeology.- 21. The Impact of Radiocarbon Dating on North African Archaeology.- 22. The Impact of Radiocarbon Dating on Near Eastern Prehistory.- 23. Radiocarbon Dating and the Prehistory of Sub-Saharan Africa.- New World Archaeology.- 24. Contributions of Radiocarbon Dating to the Geochronology of the Peopling of the New World.- 25. Radiocarbon Datingof Bone: To Collagen and Beyond.- 26. The Role of Radiocarbon Dating in Maya Archaeology: Four Decades of Research.- 27. Libby’s UCLA Radiocarbon Laboratory: Contributions to Archaeology.- Earth Sciences.- 28. Determining Recurrence Intervals of Great Subduction Zone Earthquakes in Southern Alaska by Radiocarbon Dating.- 29. Major Contributions of Radiocarbon Dating to Palynology: Past and Future.- 30. Origin of Global Meltwater Pulses.- Environmental Sciences.- 31. Radiocarbon in Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide and Methane: Global Distribution and Trends.- 32. Environmental Impact of Atmospheric Carbon-14 Emissions Resulting from the Nuclear Energy Cycle.- 33. Mankind’s Perturbations of Particulate Carbon.- Biomedical Applications.- 34. Radiocarbon in the Biological Sciences.- 35. New Biomedical Applications of Radiocarbon.

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