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Radiocarbon Protocols and First Intercomparison Results from the Chronos 14Carbon-Cycle Facility, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

Year: 2020
Type: preprint
Abstract: The Chronos 14Carbon-Cycle Facility is a new radiocarbon laboratory at the University of New South Wales, Australia. Built around an Ionplus 200 kV MIni-CArbon DAting System (MICADAS) Accelerator Mass Spectrometer (AMS) installed in October 2019, the facility was established to address major challenges in the Earth, Environmental and Archaeological sciences. Here we report an overview of the Chronos facility, the pretreatment methods currently employed and results of radiocarbon and stable isotope measurements undertaken on a wide range of sample types. Measurements on international standards, known-age and blank samples demonstrate the facility is capable of measuring 14C samples from the Anthropocene back to nearly 50,000 years ago. Future work will focus on improving our understanding of the Earth system and managing resources in a future warmer world.
DOI: 10.31223/x5g88j
Authors: Turney. Chris Stewart MacGregor, Becerra-Valdivia, Lorena, Sookdeo, Adam, Thomas, Zoë, Palmer, Jonathan, Haines, Heather, Cadd, Haidee, Wacker, Lukas, Baker, Andy, Andersen, Martin, Jacobsen, Geraldine, Meredith, Karina, Chinu, Khorshed, Bollhalder, Silvia, Marjo, Christopher
Language: English
Subfield: Archeology
Open Access status: green
Funders: Washington University in St. Louis, Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation, University of Oxford, University of New South Wales, University of Wollongong, Universidad de Chile, University of California, Irvine, Helmholtz-Zentrum Potsdam - Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum GFZ
OpenAlex ID: W7212397157
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