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The Lead Pile

These lead bricks were made from the keel of a ship sunk in the early 1600s, so they would not be contaminated with the products of 20th-century atomic tests. Within that cavity, the current calibrations of Carbon-14 dating for the last two million years were generated by Minze Stuiver and his lab. On this page you can see a photo of him sitting in front of the glass tubes: www.radiocarbon.org/Journal/v40n3/tribute.html

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Uploaded on February 21, 2008
Taken on February 20, 2008