The September 1991 discovery of a frozen body in the Tirolean Alps revived interest in radiocarbon dating. This chapter is based on this discovery, assuming you have an isolated 1-g sample of carbon from a frozen animal and that the atmospheric ratio of the two carbon isotopes was the same when the animal died as it is now.

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Type Book ChapterPub Date 1/1/2006Stock # PB198X_10

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