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[ngunn]

http://www.lpl.arizona.edu/~rlorenz/radiocarbon.pdf

This is an interesting speculative article by Lorentz et. al. from 2002 about what might be found. They suggest that radiocarbon on Titan could significantly influence both atmospreric processes and surface contitions in a number of complex ways. Can anyone here tell me if we know anything more definite about this now, from Huygens data or otherwise?

[J.J.]

<<The problem on Titan is that a flood rain will drag C14, yes, but very probably it will drag this C14 into ancient layers when infiltrating into the ground. So likely the ages of the different layers will be blurred. This is a common problem on Earth, called contamination, which makes the datation of soil layers or ancient fossils into the soil difficult.>>

My thoughts exactly. Without something like flora or fauna to take up the C-14 and sequester it, I think using for dating would be difficult. If we're lucky though, there may be areas that are particularly suitable for pristine cores, IMO.