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MEASUREMENTS have been carried out of the carbon-13/carbon-12 ratio in a New Zealand kauri (Agathis australis) a thousand years old. This tree grew in the Omahutu Forest, in the north of New Zealand, In 1912 it was felled. The stump, from which the specimen was taken, suffered in a forest fire in 1931. It is estimated that the fire removed the outer 10–30 growth rings.
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JANSEN, H. Depletion of Carbon-13 in Young Kauri Tree. Nature 196, 84–85 (1962). https://doi.org/10.1038/196084a0
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