학술논문

Carbon-14 Bomb-Pulse Dating
Document Type
Book
Author
Source
Subject
37 INORGANIC, ORGANIC, PHYSICAL AND ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY
59 BASIC BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
60 APPLIED LIFE SCIENCES AGE ESTIMATION
BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS
CARBON
CARBON 14
FOOD CHAINS
NUCLEAR WEAPONS
TESTING
Language
English
Abstract
Atmospheric testing of nuclear weapons during the 1950s and early 1960s doubled the concentration of carbon-14 atmosphere and created a pulse that labeled everything alive in the past 50 years as carbon moved up the food chain. The variation in carbon-14 concentration in time is well-documented and can be used to chronologically date all biological materials since the mid-1950s.