In-situ radiocarbon production by neutrons and muons in an Antarctic blue ice field at Scharffenbergbotnen; a status report.

• Main Authors: van der Borg, K, van, der M, Alderliesten, C, d, A M, Lamers, R N, Oerlemans, J, Thomassen, M, van, de W
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Radiocarbon 2001
• Subjects: blue ice;Scharffenbergbotnen ice field;progress report;ice fields;ablation;report;Antarctica;lower Holocene;muons;accelerator mass spectra;ice sheets;ice cores;neutrons;concentration;in situ;mass spectra;spectra;Holocene;glacial geology;Pleistocene;upper Pleistocene;Cenozoic;Quaternary;C 14;carbon;dates;isotopes;radioactive isotopes;carbon dioxide;absolute age;geochemistry; Antarctic; Scharffenbergbotnen; Antarc*; Antarctica; ice core
• Online Access: https://journals.uair.arizona.edu/index.php/radiocarbon/article/view/3907

In the radiocarbon accelerator mass spectrometry ( (super 14) C AMS) analysis of gases obtained in a dry extraction from a 52-m Antarctic ice core, we observed (super 14) CO (sub 2) and (super 14) CO concentrations decreasing with depth. The concentrations are explained in terms of in-situ productio...