RADIOCARBON DATING OF THE HISTORIC EMPEROR’S BEECH FROM MUNCEL, BAIA DE ARIES, ROMANIA

Adrian PATRUT; Victor BOCOS-BINTINTAN; Roxana T. PATRUT; Doriana PARTILA; Ileana-Andreea RATIU; Laszlo RAKOSY; Karl F. VON REDEN

doi:10.24193/subbchem.2022.4.12

RADIOCARBON DATING OF THE HISTORIC EMPEROR’S BEECH FROM MUNCEL, BAIA DE ARIES, ROMANIA

Authors

Adrian PATRUT Babeş-Bolyai University, Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, 11 Arany Janos, RO-400028, Cluj-Napoca, Romania. apatrut@gmail.com https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9862-6735
Victor BOCOS-BINTINTAN Babeş-Bolyai University, Faculty of Environmental Science and Engineering, 30 Fantanele, RO-400294 Cluj-Napoca, Romania. victor.bocos@ubbcluj.ro https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0836-1049
Roxana T. PATRUT Babeş-Bolyai University, Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, 11 Arany Janos, RO-400028, Cluj-Napoca, Romania. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8691-2160
Doriana PARTILA Dr. Lazar Chirila High School, 41 22 Decembrie 1989, RO-515300 Baia de Aries, Romania.
Ileana-Andreea RATIU Babeş-Bolyai University, Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, 11 Arany Janos, RO-400028, Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Babeş-Bolyai University, Raluca Ripan Institute for Research in Chemistry, 30 Fantanele, RO-400294 Cluj-Napoca, Romania. andreea.ratiu@ubbcluj.ro https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2615-684X
Laszlo RAKOSY Babeş-Bolyai University, Faculty of Biology and Geology, 44 Republicii, RO-400015, Cluj-Napoca, Romania. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7793-6996
Karl F. VON REDEN NOSAMS Facility, Dept. of Geology & Geophysics, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA 02543, U.S.A. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6413-9018

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.24193/subbchem.2022.4.12

Keywords:

AMS radiocarbon dating, Fagus sylvatica, dendrochronology, age determination, Romania.

Abstract

The article reports the AMS (accelerator mass spectrometry) radiocarbon dating results of the historic Emperor’s Beech (Fagul Împăratului) from Muncel, Baia de Arieş, Romania. Two wood samples were collected from the large tree, out of which four segments were extracted and analysed by AMS radiocarbon. The oldest dated sample segment had a radiocarbon date of 233 ± 18 BP, which corresponds to a calibrated age of 365 ± 5 years. This value suggests an age of 420 ± 20 years for the Emperor’s Beech. Thus, the historic beech started growing around the year 1600.

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STUDIA UBB CHEMIA, Volume 67 (LXVII), No. 4, December 2022

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2022-12-30

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PATRUT, A., BOCOS-BINTINTAN, V., PATRUT, R. T., PARTILA, D., RATIU, I.-A., RAKOSY, L., & VON REDEN, K. F. (2022). RADIOCARBON DATING OF THE HISTORIC EMPEROR’S BEECH FROM MUNCEL, BAIA DE ARIES, ROMANIA. Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai Chemia, 67(4), 187–196. https://doi.org/10.24193/subbchem.2022.4.12