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Pollen for dating

Pollen concentrated for radiocarbon dating.

Some of the sediment in the Ōkārito core does not contain much organic material, so pollen is concentrated to give a big enough sample for accelerator mass spectrometry radiocarbon dating.

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Rights: GNS Science
Published: 11 May 2011Size: 1.38 MB
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