Regional Sources of Volcanic Carbon Dioxide and Their Influence on 14C Content of Present-Day Plant Material
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14C measurements were made on present-day plant material with short integration times (tree leaves and sprouts) in the Eifel area, western Germany, where ancient volcanism produces gaseous emanations of considerable yield. Plants growing near sources emanating 14C-free CO2 show a significant depletion in the period of their growth. The same effect is found in the 14C content of recent samples from the Thera (Santorini) Archipelago/Greece. This mixing of “dead” CO2 may lead to pseudo ages in archaeologic or geologic samples of up to 1600 years in samples from the vicinity of CO2 emanating sources.
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Volcanic vents exhale CO2 depleted in 14C.
“It is well known that volcanic vents exhale C0 2 depleted in 14 C (e.g.Bruns et al. 1980;Pasquier-Cardin et al. 1999)”
From The Chronology of Tell El-Daba: A Crucial Meeting Point of<sup>14</sup>C Dating, Archaeology, and Egyptology in the 2nd Millennium BC (2012) · cites this paper as Bruns et al. 1980
A potential volcanic CO2 effect could inflate 14C ages.
“A potential volcanic CO 2 effect (release and incorporation of old, depleted, CO 2 ) could inflate 14 C ages [66][67][68][69][106][107][108][109].”
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Instances of substantive volcanic CO2 effects (hundreds to thousands of 14C years) are usually observed in low and ground-level plants or plants/trees growing within a short distance of an emission source.
“Instances of substantive effects, that is �100s to 1000s of 14 C years, are usually observed in low and groundlevel plants or plants/trees growing within a short distance of an emission source, such as the instances from the Eifel area, Germany, and Thera [106], or those from the Furnas caldera, Azores, within just a few hundred meters of the vent [107], or in leaves and tree-rings in or close to”
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- Authors
- Bruns, M., Levin, I., Münnich, K. O., Hubberten, H. W., & Fillipakis, S.
- Affiliations
- National Centre of Scientific Research "Demokritos" (GR)
- ORCID
- Levin, Ingeborg
- Venue
- Radiocarbon
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press (CUP)
- Published
- 1980
- Volume
- 22
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 532-536
- ISSN
- 0033-8222 (ISSN-L)
- 1945-5755
- OpenAlex
- W2490779104
- Cited by
- 67
- References
- 0
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- FWCI
- 0.00
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- Radiocarbon (publishedVersion)
- UA Campus Repository (The University of Arizona) (acceptedVersion)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Paleontology › Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
- Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Atmospheric Science › Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
- Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Atmospheric Science › Tree-ring climate responses
- Keywords
- Santorini, dead carbon
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