C-14 Preparation Laboratory for Water samples

Contact Person

Prof. Dr. Werner Aeschbach-Hertig
Institut für Umweltphysik
Im Neuenheimer Feld 229
69120 Heidelberg
Tel. +49 6221 54-6331
aeschbach@iup.uni-heidelberg.de
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Equipment

Glass vacuum line for CO2 extraction

sample bottles for sampling without air contact

Method

Preparation of water samples for the measurement of C-14 using proportional counter and AMS. 

Key Publications

Kreuzer, A. M., C. von Rohden, R. Friedrich, Z. Chen, J. Shi, I.
Hajdas, R. Kipfer, and W. Aeschbach-Hertig, 2009. A record of
temperature and monsoon over the past 40 kyr from groundwater in the
North China Plain. Chem. Geol. 259: 168-180.