14 C Studies of Natural Ice

There are many kinds of natural ice found on our planet. These include glacier ice, ice sheets, cave ice, massive ground ice, ice-wedge ice and permafrost ice. The problems associated with the recovery and dating of the CO 2 and other gases contained in these kinds of ice is reviewed. New data are p...

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Bibliographic Details
Published in:Radiocarbon
Main Author: Wilson, A. T.
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 1997
Subjects:
Ice
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0033822200018920
https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0033822200018920
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Summary:There are many kinds of natural ice found on our planet. These include glacier ice, ice sheets, cave ice, massive ground ice, ice-wedge ice and permafrost ice. The problems associated with the recovery and dating of the CO 2 and other gases contained in these kinds of ice is reviewed. New data are presented on various kinds of natural ice. How this kind of data can be used to help determine the origin and history of natural ice samples is discussed, along with the kind of paleoclimatic information that might be obtained from natural ice samples.