Earthquake Dating: An Application of Carbon-14 Atom Counting
- 18 March 1983
- journal article
- other
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 219 (4590) , 1320-1321
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.219.4590.1320
Abstract
Milligram-sized specimens of detrital charcoal from soil layers associated with prehistoric earthquakes on the Wasatch fault in Utah have been dated by direct atom counting of carbon-14 with a tandem Van de Graaff accelerator. The measured ratios of carbon-14 to carbon-12 correspond to ages of 7800, 8800, and 9000 years with uncertainties of ± 600 years.Keywords
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