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CONTAMINATION OF RADIOCARBON ANALYSES OF PLANT SAMPLES BY FUNGAL HYPHAE

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 December 2020

Daniel E Karig Open the ORCID record for Daniel E Karig [Opens in a new window] ,
Chase G Mayers ,
Cassandra J Wattenburger  and
John Southon
Daniel E Karig*
Affiliation:
Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
Chase G Mayers
Affiliation:
School of Integrative Plant Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
Cassandra J Wattenburger
Affiliation:
Soil and Crop Sciences Section, School of Integrative Plant Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
John Southon
Affiliation:
Department of Earth System Science, University of California, Irvine, CA, USA
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*Corresponding author. Email: dek9@cornell.edu.
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Abstract

Fungal hyphae associated with tree roots extending into the surrounding substrate are suspected to have to contaminated buried plant material with recent carbon in two examples and to have resulted in erroneously young radiocarbon ages. This problem might be overcome by choosing sampling sites far from trees or by analyzing the lignin component of samples, although the latter is presently difficult.

Keywords

contaminationfungusradiocarbon AMS dating
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Technical Note
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Radiocarbon , Volume 63 , Issue 1 , February 2021 , pp. 375 - 382
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© The Author(s), 2020. Published by Cambridge University Press for the Arizona Board of Regents on behalf of the University of Arizona

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