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Discussion: Reporting and Calibration of Post-Bomb 14 C Data
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The definitive paper by Stuiver and Polach (1977) established the conventions for reporting of radiocarbon data for chronological and geophysical studies based on the radioactive decay of 14 C in the sample since the year of sample death or formation. Several ways of reporting 14 C activity levels relative to a standard were also established, but no specific instructions were given for reporting nuclear weapons-testing (post-bomb) 14 C levels in samples. Because the use of post-bomb 14 C is becoming more prevalent in forensics, biology, and geosciences, a convention needs to be adopted. We advocate the use of fraction modern with a new symbol F 14 C to prevent confusion with the previously used Fm, which may or may not have been fractionation-corrected. We also discuss the calibration of post-bomb 14 C samples and the available data sets and compilations, but do not give a recommendation for a particular data set.
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“This ' 14 C bomb peak' (Fig. 2) is commonly found in most carbon reservoirs around the globe (Reimer et al., 2004;Levin et al., 2008;Hua et al., 2013), it provides a high-resolution chronometer for current scientific use, and owing to a relatively long half-life (5730 a) it will in general be detectable as a 'spike' for ~50 000 years into the future.”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Reimer, P. J., Brown, T. A., & Reimer, R.
- Affiliations
- Queen's University Belfast (GB)
- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (US)
- Venue
- Radiocarbon
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press (CUP)
- Published
- 2004
- Volume
- 46
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 1299-1304
- ISSN
- 0033-8222 (ISSN-L)
- 1945-5755
- OpenAlex
- W1820434448
- Cited by
- 906
- References
- 39
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 7.00
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- Radiocarbon (publishedVersion)
- Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar-und Meeresforschung (Alfred-Wegener-Institut) (acceptedVersion)
- UA Campus Repository (The University of Arizona) (acceptedVersion)
- OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information) (submittedVersion)
- University of North Texas Digital Library (University of North Texas) (submittedVersion)
- Research Portal (Queen's University Belfast) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- Funders
- National Science Foundation (0407554)
- U.S. Department of Energy (W-7405, -7405-ENG-48, W‐7405‐ENG‐48)
- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (W-7405-ENG 48, -7405-Eng-48)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Archeology › Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Radiation › Radioactive Decay and Measurement Techniques
- Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Atmospheric Science › Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
- Keywords
- radiocarbon dating, radiocarbon calibration, nuclear weapons testing
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