Challenges in 14C dating towards the limit of the method inferred from anchoring a floating tree ring radiocarbon chronology to ice core records around the Laschamp geomagnetic field minimum

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 394, Issue , 2014, Pages 209-215

  Muscheler, Raimund ^a   Adolphi, Florian ^a   Svensson, Anders ^b  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Be10; C14 calibration; Chronology; Cosmic rays; Cosmogenic radionuclides; Laschamp event

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; COSMIC RAYS; ESTIMATION; FORESTRY; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GEOMAGNETISM; GLACIAL GEOLOGY;

BE10; CALIBRATION CURVES; CHRONOLOGY; COSMOGENIC RADIONUCLIDES; GALACTIC COSMIC RAYS; GEOMAGNETIC FIELDS; LASCHAMP; TREE-RING CHRONOLOGIES;

ICE;

CALIBRATION; CHRONOLOGY; COSMOGENIC RADIONUCLIDE; GEOLOGICAL RECORD; ICE CORE; MAGNETIC FIELD; PALEOMAGNETISM; PLEISTOCENE; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; RADIOCARBON DATING; TREE RING;

CALIBRATION; ESTIMATION; FORESTRY; ICE;

NEW ZEALAND;

EID: 84897538354     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2014.03.024     Document Type: Article

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