RADIOCARBON INVESTIGATION OF THE PEDUNCULATE OAK OF BOTOSANA, ROMANIA

Adrian  PATRUT; Nicolae  ROBU; Vasile  SAVU; Roxana T.  PATRUT; Laszlo  RAKOSY; Ileana-Andreea  RAŢIU; Daniel A.  LOWY; Dragos  MARGINEANU; Karl F.  von REDEN

doi:10.24193/subbchem.2018.4.01

RADIOCARBON INVESTIGATION OF THE PEDUNCULATE OAK OF BOTOSANA, ROMANIA

Authors

Adrian PATRUT Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Babeş-Bolyai University; Raluca Ripan Institute for Research in Chemistry, Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Email: apatrut@chem.ubbcluj. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9862-6735
Nicolae ROBU “Ştefan cel Mare” Technological High School, Cajvana, Romania. Corresponding author: apatrut@chem.ubbcluj.
Vasile SAVU “Ştefan cel Mare” Technological High School, Cajvana, Romania. Corresponding author: apatrut@chem.ubbcluj.
Roxana T. PATRUT Faculty of Biology and Geology, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Email: roxanapatrut@yahoo.com. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8691-2160
Laszlo RAKOSY Faculty of Biology and Geology, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Email: laszlo.rakosy@ubbcluj.ro. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7793-6996
Ileana-Andreea RAŢIU Department of Environmental Chemistry and Bioanalytics, Faculty of Chemistry, Interdisciplinary Centre of Modern Technologies, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Torun, Poland; Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Email: andreea_ratiu84@yahoo.com. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2615-684X
Daniel A. LOWY Valor Hungariae, Department of Science and Innovation, Budapest, Hungary. Corresponding author: apatrut@chem.ubbcluj. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2210-6757
Dragos MARGINEANU Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Babeş-Bolyai University; Raluca Ripan Institute for Research in Chemistry, Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Email: dmargi@chemubbcluj.ro.
Karl F. von REDEN Department of Geology and Geophysics, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, NOSAMS Facility, Woods Hole, USA. Email: kvonreden@whoi.edu. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6413-9018

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.24193/subbchem.2018.4.01

Keywords:

AMS radiocarbon dating, Quercus robur, dendrochronology, age determination

Abstract

The article discloses the AMS (accelerator mass spectrometry) radiocarbon dating results of the pedunculate oak of Botoşana. Four wood samples were extracted from its trunk. Five segments extracted from these samples were analyzed by AMS radiocarbon. Their radiocarbon dates were found to be between 161 ± 21 BP and 260 ± 20 BP. These values correspond to calibrated ages of 235 – 365 years. The dating results extrapolated to the geometric center of the trunk indicate an age of 645 ± 50 years for the oak of Botoşana.

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STUDIA UBB CHEMIA, Volume 63 (LXIII), No. 4, December 2018

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2018-12-31

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PATRUT, A. ., ROBU, N. ., SAVU, V. ., PATRUT, R. T. ., RAKOSY, L. ., RAŢIU, I.-A. ., … von REDEN, K. F. . (2018). RADIOCARBON INVESTIGATION OF THE PEDUNCULATE OAK OF BOTOSANA, ROMANIA. Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai Chemia, 63(4), 7–13. https://doi.org/10.24193/subbchem.2018.4.01