Late glacial 14C ages from a floating, 1382-ring pine chronology
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2004Author
Kromer, Bernd
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Friedrich, Michael
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Hughen, Konrad A.
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Kaiser, K. Felix
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Remmele, Sabine
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Schaub, Matthias
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Talamo, Sahra
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https://hdl.handle.net/1912/4369Abstract
We built a floating, 1382-ring pine chronology covering the radiocarbon age interval of 12,000 to 10,650 BP.
Based on the strong rise of Δ14C at the onset of the Younger Dryas (YD) and wiggle-matching of the decadal-scale Δ14C fluctuations,
we can anchor the floating chronology to the Cariaco varve chronology. We observe a marine reservoir correction
higher than hitherto assumed for the Cariaco site, of up to 650 yr instead of 400 yr, for the full length of the comparison interval.
The tree-ring Δ14C shows several strong fluctuations of short duration (a few decades) at 13,800; 13,600; and 13,350 cal
BP. The amplitude of the strong Δ14C rise at the onset of the YD is about 40‰, whereas in the marine data set the signal
appears stronger due to a re-adjustment of the marine mixed-layer Δ14C towards the atmospheric level.
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Author Posting. © Arizona Board of Regents on behalf of the University of Arizona, 2004. 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 46 (2004): 1203-1209.