IntCal09 and Marine09 radiocarbon age calibration curves, 0–50,000 years cal BP

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IntCal09 and Marine09 radiocarbon age calibration curves, 0–50,000 years cal BP

Reimer, Paula J.; Baillie, Mike G. L.; Bard, Edouard; Bayliss, Alex; Beck, J. Warren; Blackwell, Paul G.; Ramsey, C. Bronk; Buck, Caitlin E.; Burr, George S.; Edwards, R. Lawrence; Friedrich, Michael; Grootes, P. M.; Guilderson, Thomas P.; Hajdas, Irka; Heaton, T. J.; Hogg, Alan G.; Hughen, Konrad A.; Kaiser, K. F.; Kromer, Bernd; McCormac, F. G.; Manning, S. W.; Reimer, Ron W.; Richards, D. A.; Southon, John R.; Talamo, Sahra; Turney, C. S. M.; van der Plicht, Johannes; Weyhenmeyer, Constanze E.

Citable URI: http://hdl.handle.net/1912/4364

As published: https://journals.uair.arizona.edu/index.php/radiocarbon/article/view/16947

Date: 2009-12

Abstract:

The IntCal04 and Marine04 radiocarbon calibration curves have been updated from 12 cal kBP (cal kBP is here defined as thousands of calibrated years before AD 1950), and extended to 50 cal kBP, utilizing newly available data sets that meet the IntCal Working Group criteria for pristine corals and other carbonates and for quantification of uncertainty in both the 14C and calendar timescales as established in 2002. No change was made to the curves from 0–12 cal kBP. The curves were constructed using a Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) implementation of the random walk model used for IntCal04 and Marine04. The new curves were ratified at the 20th International Radiocarbon Conference in June 2009 and are available in the Supplemental Material at www.radiocarbon.org.

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Author Posting. © Arizona Board of Regents on behalf of the University of Arizona, 2009. This article is posted here by permission of Dept. of Geosciences, University of Arizona for personal use, not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in Radiocarbon 51 (2009): 1111-1150.

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