Publication Date:
2012-10-23
Description:
Radiocarbon ((14)C) provides a way to date material that contains carbon with an age up to ~50,000 years and is also an important tracer of the global carbon cycle. However, the lack of a comprehensive record reflecting atmospheric (14)C prior to 12.5 thousand years before the present (kyr B.P.) has limited the application of radiocarbon dating of samples from the Last Glacial period. Here, we report (14)C results from Lake Suigetsu, Japan (35 degrees 35'N, 135 degrees 53'E), which provide a comprehensive record of terrestrial radiocarbon to the present limit of the (14)C method. The time scale we present in this work allows direct comparison of Lake Suigetsu paleoclimatic data with other terrestrial climatic records and gives information on the connection between global atmospheric and regional marine radiocarbon levels.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Bronk Ramsey, Christopher -- Staff, Richard A -- Bryant, Charlotte L -- Brock, Fiona -- Kitagawa, Hiroyuki -- van der Plicht, Johannes -- Schlolaut, Gordon -- Marshall, Michael H -- Brauer, Achim -- Lamb, Henry F -- Payne, Rebecca L -- Tarasov, Pavel E -- Haraguchi, Tsuyoshi -- Gotanda, Katsuya -- Yonenobu, Hitoshi -- Yokoyama, Yusuke -- Tada, Ryuji -- Nakagawa, Takeshi -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2012 Oct 19;338(6105):370-4. doi: 10.1126/science.1226660.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉University of Oxford, Oxford, UK. christopher.ramsey@rlaha.ox.ac.uk〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23087245" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Atmosphere/*chemistry
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Calibration
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Carbon Radioisotopes/analysis
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Fossils
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Geologic Sediments/*chemistry
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Lakes/*chemistry
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Radiometric Dating/*standards
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Trees/anatomy & histology/growth & development
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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