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Science 25 November 1983:
Vol. 222. no. 4626, pp. 925 - 927
DOI: 10.1126/science.222.4626.925
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Chlorine-36 Dating of Saline Sediments: Preliminary Results from Searles Lake, California

FRED M. PHILLIPS 1, GEORGE I. SMITH 2, HAROLD W. BENTLEY 3, DAVID ELMORE 4, and HARRY E. GOVE 4

1 Geoscience Department and Geophysical Research Center, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro 87801
2 Branch of Energy Minerals, U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, California 94025
3 Department of Hydrology and Water Resources, University of Arizona, Tucson 85721
4 Nuclear Structure Research Laboratory, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York 14627

Measurements have been made of the ratios of chlorine-36 to chlorine in five halite samples from Searles Lake sediments, previously dated by carbon-14, thorium-230, and magnetostratigraphic techniques. The ages calculated from the chlorine ratios are generally concordant with those from the other methods, implying the constancy of the chlorine input ratio over the last million years.

Submitted on April 4, 1983
Accepted on September 8, 1983


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