A 40,000-YEAR VARVE CHRONOLOGY FROM LAKE SUIGETSU, JAPAN - EXTENSION OF THE C-14 CALIBRATION CURVE

Authors
KITAGAWA H VANDERPLICHT J
Citation
H. Kitagawa et J. Vanderplicht, A 40,000-YEAR VARVE CHRONOLOGY FROM LAKE SUIGETSU, JAPAN - EXTENSION OF THE C-14 CALIBRATION CURVE, Radiocarbon, 40(1), 1998, pp. 505-515
Citations number
18
Categorie Soggetti
Geochemitry & Geophysics
Journal title
Radiocarbon → ACNP
ISSN journal
00338222
Volume
40
Issue
1
Year of publication
1998
Part
1
Pages
505 - 515
Database
ISI
SICI code
0033-8222(1998)40:1<505:A4VCFL>2.0.ZU;2-R
Abstract
A sequence of annually laminated sediments is a potential tool for cal ibrating the radiocarbon time scale beyond the range of the absolute t ree-ring calibration (11 ka). We performed accelerator mass spectromet ric (AMS) C-14 measurements on >250 terrestrial macrofossil samples fr om a 40,000-yr varve sequence from Lake Suigetsu, Japan. The results y ield the first calibration curve for the total range of the C-14 datin g method.