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Photo Gallery for Clarke County, Virginia
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Age Dating |
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FILE: age04.jpg |
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DESCRIPTION: |
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Collection of tritium/helium-3 (3H/3He)
age-dating sample. Water flows through a copper tube
contained in an aluminum channel fitted with pinch-off clamps.
The sample water is isolated from the atmosphere at the time of
sampling by tightening the clamps, which pinches the ends of the
copper tubing together. The sample is analyzed at the
Noble Gas Laboratory at the Lamont- Doherty Earth
Observatory of Columbia University in Palisades, NY. |
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SOURCE:
David Nelms
USGS |
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