Atmospheric radiocarbon calibration to 45,000 yr B.P.: Late glacial fluctuations and cosmogenic isotope production

Science

Volumn 279, Issue 5354, 1998, Pages 1187-1190

  Kitagawa, H ^a   Van Der Plicht, J ^b  

^a National Institutes for the Humanities International Research Center for Japanese Studies   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON 13; CARBON 14; ISOTOPE; THORIUM; URANIUM;

CALIBRATION; CHRONOLOGY; LATE GLACIAL; PINE; RADIOCARBON;

ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; CHRONOLOGY; FOSSIL; GEOLOGY; JAPAN; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOISOTOPE DISTRIBUTION; SEDIMENT;

JAPAN, HONSHO, LAKE SUIGETSU;

EID: 0032549104     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.279.5354.1187     Document Type: Article

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50. We thank the Lake Suigetsu Scientific Drilling Team led by Y. Yasuda; M Nishimura for the macrofossils collection from sediments; and E. R. M. Druffel and three anonymous reviewers for comments on the manuscript. This work was funded primarily by the Grant-Aid for Scientific Research (04214116) from the Ministry of Education, Science, and Culture (Japan) and partly by the Toyota Foundation (96-A-232).