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Low organic carbon accumulation rates in Black Sea sediments
THE Black Sea, the world's largest anoxic marine basin, is frequently used as a modern analogue for the formation of organic-rich sediments and carbonaceous rocks1–3, on the widely held assumption that anoxic con...
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Accelerator Radiocarbon Measurements of Artistic Artifacts
The use of a particle accelerator to measure the 14C content of carbon-containing materials is briefly described. The application of the method to the determination of the age of some artistic artifacts is discus...
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Old carbon in living organisms and young CaC03 cements from abyssal brine seeps
ABYSSAL brine springs at the base of the Florida Escarpment in the Gulf of Mexico (∼3,280 m, 26° O2' N 84° 55' W) are surrounded by communities of abundant heterotrophic organisms1–4 and carbonate-cemented crusts
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Radiocarbon dating of the Shroud of Turin
Very small samples from the Shroud of Turin have been dated by accelerator mass spectrometry in laboratories at Arizona, Oxford and Zurich. As controls, three samples whose ages had been determined independent...
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Stable isotope evidence for chemosynthesis in an abyssal seep community
Communities of abundant organisms, similar to those which surround the hydrothermal vents of the East Pacific Rise (EPR), occur in 3,266 m of water in the Gulf of Mexico. They were discovered with the Alvin at 26...