Sample submission
Submission form: DownloadSample submission template (XLSX, 22 KB)
- Fill out the excel list (see sample submission template) and email it to
Please write in the email text special wishes you have, e.g. priority, material choice, conservation and contamination history - Send hard copy of the template with the sample(s) via mail to:
ETH Zurich
Laboratory of Ion Beam Physics
Radiocarbon, HPK H31
Otto-Stern-Weg 5
8093 Zurich
Switzerland
Sampling and packing
Please take special care while sampling and packing your samples.
- Avoid contamination with modern carbon by keeping your sample away from dust, paper tissue, other mechanical contaminants.
- Sample label (referring to the label on the sample list) should be firmly secured on the sample.
- Packing samples is very important. Use aluminum foil or clean (new) plastic bags, or clean (new) glass/plastic vials. Please take care to secure the lid and the vial from crushing in the mail by wrapping it in bubble plastic. Please use possibly small volume of vials.
- Packing Foraminifera: important is to use vials that are easy to close/open.
- Information on how to submit sample material as CO2 in glass tubes can be found Downloadhere (PDF, 443 KB).
- Contact
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