Radiocarbon dating of the historic grand baobab of Mahajanga, Madagascar
Radiocarbon dating of the historic grand baobab of Mahajanga, Madagascar
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2023-01-09
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Patrut, Adrian
Patrut, Roxana T.
Rakosy, Laszlo
Ratiu, Ileana Andreea
Danthu, Pascal
Leong Pock Tsy, Jean-Michel
Von Reden, Karl F.
Patrut, Roxana T.
Rakosy, Laszlo
Ratiu, Ileana Andreea
Danthu, Pascal
Leong Pock Tsy, Jean-Michel
Von Reden, Karl F.
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10.24193/subbchem.2023.1.09
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AMS radiocarbon dating
Adansonia digitata
Dendrochronology
Madagascar
Age determination
Multiple stems
Adansonia digitata
Dendrochronology
Madagascar
Age determination
Multiple stems
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The article reports the AMS (accelerator mass spectrometry) radiocarbon investigation of the historic Grand Baobab of Mahajanga. The largest African baobab of Madagascar exhibits a cluster structure, which consists of 6 fused ordinary stems and of 3 small binding stems. Two samples were collected from the largest stem and from a primary branch, out of which several tiny segments were extracted and dated by radiocarbon. The oldest dated sample segment had a radiocarbon date of 214 [+ or -] 17 BP, which corresponds to a calibrated age of 265 [+ or -] 25 calendar years. The dating results indicate that the Grand Baobab of Mahajanga is 275 [+ or -] 25 years old. Keywords: AMS radiocarbon dating, Adansonia digitata, dendrochronology, Madagascar, age determination, multiple stems.
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© The Author(s), 2023. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License. The definitive version was published in Patrut, A., Patrut, R., Rakosy, L., Ratiu, I., Danthu, P., Tsy, J.-M., Von Reden, K., Cirad, U., & Drfgrn-fofifa, A. Radiocarbon dating of the historic grand baobab of Mahajanga, Madagascar. Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai Chemia, 68(1), (2023): 119–129, https://doi.org/10.24193/subbchem.2023.1.09.
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Patrut, A., Patrut, R., Rakosy, L., Ratiu, I., Danthu, P., Tsy, J.-M., Von Reden, K., Cirad, U., & Drfgrn-fofifa, A. (2023). Radiocarbon dating of the historic grand baobab of Mahajanga, Madagascar. Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai Chemia, 68(1), 119–129.
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