Forensic applications of 14C bomb-pulse dating

Atmospheric Radiocarbon for the Period 1950–2010

“…In addition, the application of bomb 14 C in various other research disciplines has grown significantly in the last 2 decades. In particular, atmospheric bomb 14 C has been used in forensic studies (Wild et al 1998;Zoppi et al 2004;Nakamura et al 2007;Buchholz and Spalding 2010;Alkass et al 2011;Ubelaker and Parra 2011;Ehleringer et al 2012), in biomedical research (Spalding et al 2005(Spalding et al , 2008Bhardwaj et al 2006;Lynnerup et al 2008), and in soil carbon studies (Quideau et al 2000;Bruun et al 2005;Koarashi et al 2009;Trumbore 2009;Rabbi et al 2013), to build reliable chronologies for recent terrestrial archives and materials (Hua 2009;English et al 2010;Hodge et al 2011;Clarke et al 2012;Hua et al 2012a), to validate tree-ring ages (Fichtler et al 2003;Vieira et al 2005;Bowman et al 2011;Pearson et al 2011), to date recent trees having no annual growth rings (Worbes and Junk 1989;Poussart and Schrag 2005;Lovelock et al 2010), and to determine biogenic and fossil fractions of industrial CO 2 emissions (Mohn et al 2008(Mohn et al , 2012Felner and Rechberger 2009;Palstra and Meijer 2010). This paper presents a new compilation of tropospheric 14 CO 2 (or tropospheric 14 C in short) for the last 60 yr , covering a short interval before the onset of bomb 14 C in the mid-1950s, the bomb-peak period during the 1960s, and the post-bomb era up to very recent time.…”

14C Calibration Curves for Modern Plant Material from Tropical Regions of South America

“…Our specific objective was to construct the  14 C record for coca leaves (Erythroxylum coca) and of the illicit cocaine base extracted from coca. This study builds on initial observations published earlier by Zoppi et al (2004). Leaves were acquired on specific dates from plantations in Bolivia, Colombia, and Peru.…”

Bringing AMS radiocarbon into the Anthropocene: Potential and drawbacks in the determination of the bio-fraction in industrial emissions and in carbon-based products

“…We remind here the role played by the so called bomb-peak [4] dating in different field from forensics [5][6][7] to life sciences [8,9]. Beside these dating application, 14 C has become a very powerful monitoring tool when the released emissions can be labelled depending on their 14 C content.…”