RE: C-14 Dating -Reply

[Yong Zhu <zhu@myapc.com>]

Hi ! DJ

Nice to read your comments. We are not done yet, it looks PECO is
coming...  

Yong Zhu
Maine Yankee

>>> David Richards <DJRichards@msn.com> Jul 10, 1997  11:31 am >>>
 -----Original Message-----
From:	radsafe@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu  On Behalf Of Erik C. Nielsen

Australian botanists find 43,000-year-old plant
      Where did I miss the boat?

Erik, perhaps you're just thinking thoughts too deep for this interesting 
little article. The way I read it, carbon dating was only performed on the 
"fossilized remains in the forest floor". What I believe they are saying is 
that those fossilized remains are genetically identical to the living plant 
and because of the natural cloning observed, it seems to indicate that the
 plant has been continuously living for the entire period because they are
 technically all the same plant.

Are you the same Erik Neilsen I met years ago on the power plant outage
 circuit? DC Cook perhaps? Memories from those times are getting a little 
foggy. Must have been the radiation. :-)

DJ Richards
Radiological Services, Inc.
New London, CT