Volcanoes, ice-cores and tree-rings: One story or two?

Antiquity

Volumn 84, Issue 323, 2010, Pages 202-215

  Baillie, M G L ^a  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Calibration; Dating; Dendrochronology; Ice core

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952940647     PISSN: 0003598X     EISSN: 0003598X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0003598X00099877     Document Type: Article

References (30)

1. BAILLIE, M.G.L. 2008. Proposed re-dating of the European ice core chronology by seven years prior to the seventh century AD. Geophysical Research Letters 35: L15813, doi:10.1029/2008GL034755.
2. BAILLIE, M.G.L., J. HILLAM, K. BRIFFA &D.M. BROWN. 1985. Re-dating the English art-historical tree-ring chronologies. Nature 315: 317-319
3. BECKER, B.1981. A 2350-year south German oak tree-ring chronology. Fundberichte aus Baden-Wurttemberg 6: 369-386
4. BRIFFA, K.R. 2000. Annual climate variability in the Holocene: interpreting the message of ancient trees. Quaternary Science Reviews 19: 87-105.
5. CLAUSEN, H.B., C.U. HAMMER, C.S. HVIDBERG, D. DAHL-JENSEN & J.P. STEFFENSEN. 1997. A comparison of the volcanic records over the past 4000 years from the Greenland Ice Core Project and Dye-3 Greenland ice cores. Journal of Geophysical Research 102(C12): 26, 707-26, 723.
6. ECKSTEIN, D., D.A. BRONGERS & J. BAUCH. 1975. Tree-ring research in the Netherlands. Tree-Ring Bulletin 35: 1-13.
7. ECKSTEIN, D., T.WAZNY, J. BAUCH & P. KLEIN. 1986. New evidence for the dendrochronological dating of Netherlandish paintings. Nature 320: 465-466
8. FLETCHER, J.M. 1978. Oak chronologies; England, in J. Fletcher (ed.) Dendrochronology in Europe: principles, interpretations and applications to archaeology and history (British Archaeological Reports International Series 51): 145-156 Oxford: British Archaeological Reports.
9. - 1986. Dating of art-historical artefacts. Nature 320: 466.
10. FRIEDRICH, W.L., B. KROMER, M. FRIEDRICH, J. HEINEMEIER, T. PFEIFFER & S. TALAMO. 2006. Santorini eruption radiocarbon dated to 1627-1600 BC. Science 312: 548.
11. GAO, C., A. ROBOCK, S. SELF, J.B. WITTER, J.P. STEFFENSON, H.B. CLAUSEN, M.-L. SIGGAARDANDERSEN, S. JOHNSEN, P.A. MAYEWSKI&C. AMMAN. 2006. The 1452 or 1453 AD Kuwae eruption signal derived from multiple ice core records: greatest volcanic sulfate event of the past 700 years. Journal of Geophysical Research 111: D12107, doi:10.1029/2005JD006710. (Pubitemid 44687621)
12. HAMMER, C.U. 1984. Traces of Icelandic eruptions in the Greenland ice sheet. Jökull 34: 51-65.
13. HAMMER, C.U., H.B. CLAUSEN&W. DANSGAARD. 1980. Greenland ice sheet evidence of post-glacial volcanism and its climatic impact. Nature 288: 230-235
14. HAMMER, C.U., H.B. CLAUSEN, W.L. FRIEDRICH&H. TAUBER. 1987. The Minoan eruption of Santorini in Greece dated to 1645 BC? Nature 328: 517-519
15. HAMMER, C.U., G. KURAT, P. HOPPE, W. GRUM & H.B. CLAUSEN. 2003. Thera eruption date 1645 BC confirmed by new ice core data?, in M. Bietak (ed.) The synchronisation of civilisations in the Eastern Mediterranean in the second millennium BC II : 87-94. Vienna: Austrian Academy of Sciences.
16. HERRON, M.M. 1982. Impurity sources of F, Cl, NO and SO in Greenland and Antarctic precipitation. Journal of Geophysical Research 87: 3052-3060
17. HERRON, M., S.L.HERRON&C.C. Jr. LANGWAY. 1981. Climatic signal of ice melt features in Southern Greenland. Nature 293: 389-391
18. HOLLSTEIN, E. 1980. Mittel Europaische Eichenchronologie. Mainz: Philipp von Zabern.
19. HUGHES, M.K. 1988. Ice layer dating of the eruption of Santorini. Nature 335: 211-212
20. JOHNSEN, S.J., H.B. CLAUSEN, W. DANSGAARD, K. FUHRER, N. GUNDESTRUP, C.U. HAMMER, P. IVERSEN, J. JOUZEL, B. STAUFFER & J.P. STEFFENSEN. 1992. Irregular glacial interstadials recorded in a new Greenland ice core. Nature 359: 311-313
21. KALELA-BRUNDIN, M. 1997. Haze in Norway and Sweden in 1601: a result of a volcanic eruption? Dendrochronologia 15: 199-203.
22. LAMARCHE, V.C. Jr. & K.K. HIRSCHBOECK. 1984. Frost rings in trees as records of major volcanic eruptions. Nature 307: 121-126
23. LARSEN, L.B., B.M. VINTHER, K.R. BRIFFA, T.M. MELVIN, H.B. CLAUSEN, P.D. JONES, M.-L. SIGGAARD-ANDERSEN, C.U. HAMMER, M. ERONEN, H. GRUDD, B.E. GUNNARSON, R.M. HANTEMIROV, M.M. NAURBAEV & K. NICOLUSSI. 2008. New ice core evidence for a volcanic cause of the AD 536 dust veil. Geophysical Research Letters 35: L04708, doi:10.1029/2007GL032450. (Pubitemid 351721432)
24. PANG, K.D. 1991. The legacies of eruption. The Sciences 31: 1, 30-33.
25. SALZER, M.W. & M.K.HUGHES. 2007. Bristlecone pine tree rings and volcanic eruptions over the last 5000 yr. Quaternary Research 67: 57-68.
26. SIMKIN, T., L. SIEBERT, L. MCCLELLAND, D. BRIDGE, C. NEWHALL & J.H. LATTER. 1981. Volcanoes of the world: regional directory, gazetteer, and chronology of volcanism during the last 10,000 years. Stroudsburg (PA): Hutchinson Ross.
27. STOTHERS, R.B. & M.R. RAMPINO. 1983a. Volcanic eruptions in the Mediterranean before AD 630 from written and archaeological sources. Journal of Geophysical Research 88: 6357-6371
28. - 1983b. Historic volcanism, European dry fogs, and Greenland acid precipitation, 1500 BC to AD 1500. Science 222: 411-413
29. VINTHER, B.M., H.B. CLAUSEN, S.J. JOHNSEN, S.O. RASMUSSEN, K.K. ANDERSEN, S.L. BUCHARDT, D. DAHL-JENSEN, I.K. SEIERSTAD, M.-L. SIGGAARDANDERSEN, J.P. STEFFENSEN, A. SVENSSON, J. OLSEN & J. HEINEMEIER. 2006. A synchronized dating of three Greenland ice cores throughout the Holocene. Journal of Geophysical Research 111: D13102, doi: 10.1029/2005JD006921. (Pubitemid 44768151)
30. ZIELINSKI, G.A., P.A. MAYEWSKI, L.D. MEEKER, S. WHITLOW, M.S. TWICKLER, M. MORRISON, D.A. MEESE, A.J. GOW & R.B. ALLEY. 1994. Record of volcanism since 7000 BC from the GISP2 Greenland ice core and implications for the volcano-climate system. Science 264: 948-952