Atmospheric Radiocarbon Calibration to 45,000 yr B.P.: Late Glacial Fluctuations and Cosmogenic Isotope Production
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More than 250 carbon-14 accelerator mass spectrometry dates of terrestrial macrofossils from annually laminated sediments from Lake Suigetsu (Japan) provide a first atmospheric calibration for almost the total range of the radiocarbon method (45,000 years before the present). The results confirm the (recently revised) floating German pine chronology and are consistent with data from European and marine varved sediments, and combined uranium-thorium and carbon-14 dating of corals up to the Last Glacial Maximum. The data during the Glacial show large fluctuations in the atmospheric carbon-14 content, related to changes in global environment and in cosmogenic isotope production.
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The Suigetsu record contains many substantial terrestrial plant macrofossils that three laboratories have radiocarbon dated.
“Furthermore, the record contains large numbers of substantial terrestrial plant macrofossils, radiocarbon dated by three different laboratories (Kitagawa and van der Plicht 1998;Bronk Ramsey et al. 2012).”
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- Authors
- Kitagawa, H., & van der Plicht, J.
- Affiliations
- University of Groningen (NL)
- H. Kitagawa, International Research Center for Japanese Studies, 3-2, Goryo Oeyama-cho, Nishikyo-ku, Kyoto, 610-1192 Japan.
- Corresponding author
- Kitagawa, H.
- ORCID
- Kitagawa, H.
- Venue
- Science
- Published
- 1998-02-20
- Volume
- 279
- Issue
- 5354
- Pages
- 1187-1190
- ISSN
- 0036-8075 (ISSN-L)
- 1095-9203
- OpenAlex
- W2138883883
- Cited by
- 414
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- FWCI
- 53.62
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
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- 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
- carbon-14, Lake Suigetsu, Late Glacial, cosmogenic nuclides, Last Glacial Maximum, varved sediments, floating chronology, marine varves, global change
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