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GLACIOLOGISTS have long recognized the need for a method of age-dating ice samples to help them in their investigations of ice-flow phenomena and the genesis of ice sheets. The necessity of an accurate method of age-dating has become particularly urgent for use in the analysis of ice cores1 now available as the result of the recent development by the U.S. Army Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory of techniques of deep ice core-drilling2.
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LANGWAY, C., OESCHGER, H., ALDER, B. et al. Sampling Polar Ice for Radiocarbon Dating. Nature 206, 500–501 (1965). https://doi.org/10.1038/206500a0
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