Volume 18, 2000

Editorial Board

Editor-in-Chief
Anna Pazdur
Institute of Physics, Silesian University of Technology,
Konarskiego 22B, 44-100 Gliwice, Poland

Managing Editor
Ewa Goslar
and Members of Editorial Board, Poland:
Andrzej Bluszcz, Gliwice
Tomasz Goslar, Gliwice
Helena Hercman, Warsaw
Marek Krąpiec, Cracow
Kazimierz Różański, Cracow

Editorial Advisory Board:
Metods of Physics in Absolute Chronology
J. Evin, Lyon, France
Z. Florkowski, Cracow, Poland
M. Fontugne, Gif-sur-Yvett, France
S. Hałas, Lublin, Poland
B. Miller, East Kilbride, Scotland
A. S. Murray, Roskilde, Denmark
H. L. Oczkowski, Toruń, Poland
A. Zastawny, Gliwice, Poland

Dendrochronology
O. Eggertsson, Lund, Sweden
M. Krąpiec, Cracow, Poland
V. Stravinskiene, Kaunas, Lituania

Archaeology
J. Batora, Nitra, Slovakia
J. Gorsdorf, Berlin, Germany
J. S. Kozłowski, Cracow, Poland
R. Schild, Warsaw, Poland
M. Ziółkowski, Warsaw, Poland

Geology, Geomorphology, Geography
S. W. Alexandrowicz, Cracow, Poland
K. Borówka, Szczecin, Poland
A. Gaigalas, Vilnius, Lituania
D. Krzyszkowski, Koeln, Germany
T. Madeyska, Warsaw, Poland
B. Nowaczyk, Poznań, Poland
K. Rotnicki, Poznań, Poland
W. Stankowski, Poznań, Poland
L. Starkel, Cracow, Poland

Botany
B. Wohlfarth, Lund, Sweden
K. Wasylikowa, Cracow, Poland

Contents

1. SAMPLE PREPARATION IN THE GLIWICE RADIOCARBON LABORATORY FOR AMS ¹⁴C DATING OF SEDIMENTS.
   Tomasz Goslar and Justyna Czernik.
   (pp 1-8)
    
2. COMPARISON OF THE RADIOCARBON DATING METHODS USED IN THE GLIWICE RADIOCARBON LABORATORY.
   Anna Pazdur, Adam Michczyński, Jacek Pawlyta and Petrit Spahiu.
   (pp 9-14)
    
3. δ ¹³C IN TREE RINGS α-CELLULOSE. A METHODOLOGY OF MEASUREMENTS AND INTERPRETATION: STATE OF THE ART.
   Sławomira Pawełczyk and Anna Pazdur.
   (pp 15-18)
    
4. RADIOCARBON CONCENTRATION MEASUREMENTS IN CONTEMPORARY TREE RINGS FROM UPPER SILESIA.
   Andrzej Z. Rakowski, Sławomira Pawełczyk and Anna Pazdur.
   (pp 19-22)
    
5. MEASUREMENTS OF TRITIUM RADIOACTIVITY IN SURFACE WATER ON THE UPPER SILESIA REGION.
   Aleksandra Sawodni, Anna Pazdur and Jacek Pawlyta.
   (pp 23-28)
    
6. FIRST MEASUREMENTS OF NATURAL RADIOACTIVITIES OF ²¹⁰Pb IN THE INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS, SILESIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY.
   Tomasz Goslar, Małgorzata Ganowicz and Justyna Czernik.
   (pp 29-34)
    
7. AGE OF GLACIOTECTONIC STRUCTURES ON THE WOLIN ISLAND IN THE LIGHT OF LITHOSTRATIGRAPHIC DATA AND RADIOCARBON DATING.
   Krzysztof Borówka.
   (pp 35-40)
    
8. RADIOCARBON AGE OF ORGANOGENIC SEDIMENTS IN LAKE JASIEŃ SUBGLACIAL CHANNEL AND THEIR PALEOGEOGRAPHICAL SIGNIFICANCE.
   Wacław Florek and Anna Pazdur.
   (pp 41-46)
    
9. ORIGIN OF LAMINATED SEDIMENTS IN THE ALLUVIAL TERRACE OF THE UPPER SAN RIVER IN THE BIESZCZADY MOUNTAINS, EASTERN CARPATHIANS.
   Józef Kukulak.
   (pp 47-52)
    
10. BETA SOURCE CALIBRATION FOR THERMOLUMINESCENCE DATING.
    Hubert L. Oczkowski and Krzysztof R. Przegiętka.
    (pp 53-56)
     
11. GAMMA SPECTROMETRY IN THERMOLUMINESCENCE DATING.
    Hubert L. Oczkowski, Krzysztof R. Przegiętka, Krzysztof R. Lankauf and Jacek B. Szmańda.
    (pp 57-62)
     
12. DATING OF A DUNE IN KĘPA KUJAWSKA.
    Hubert L. Oczkowski, Krzysztof R. Przegiętka, Krzysztof R. Lankauf and Jacek B. Szmańda.
    (pp 63-68)