Re: Problems with the radio carbon dating of the Newport Tower

Jack Linthicum wrote:
On Nov 30, 10:54 am, Erik Hammerstad <egeha.is.all.you.n...@xxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Jack Linthicum wrote:
On Nov 30, 9:16 am, Jack Linthicum <jacklinthi...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
On Nov 30, 9:00 am, "Peter Alaca" <p.al...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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On 30 Nov, 11:10, "Digger" <p.du...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
"Eric Stevens" <eric.stev...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Thu, 29 Nov 2007 22:02:51 GMT, "Digger" <p.du...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
I've not really been following this debate but I can't help
commenting on
this. What on earth makes them think they can carbon date a
building??
This
is possibly one of the most inappropriate applications of carbon
dating I
have ever read about.
It's possible to use radiocarbon methods to determine the date ate
which the mortar used in the building set. The theory is explained
in
the article. A problem is that the date at which the mortar set
can be
some considerable time after the mortar was mixed, depending on
how
deep inside the building the mortar is placed.
I remain extremely dusious that this can be anything but a very
approximate
dating technique. Where else has it been employed and by whom?
http://www.americanscientist.org/template/AssetDetail/assetid/17236
The article in pdf formathttp://www.phys.au.dk/ams/hale-jh-2003(jan17)datingancientmortar@.pdf
"CARTOON GOES HERE"
Anyone know what this cartoon is? The phrase is the last statement in
the paper and might give us clues as to the confidence of the authors.
also, a minor point but what is the year "TK"? It is mentioned several
times in the information about the authors. Is this like the old
Soviet thing where they wrote stories and instead of looking up
statistics would write "XY Dollars" or "XX Metric tonnes"?
PDF conversion problem? Cliik on the author names on the URL
provided by JerryT and you get standard numerical years.

Then there is no cartoon?
None in the text version.
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