Radiocarbon Calibration by Means of Mass Spectrometric 230Th/234U and 14C Ages of Corals: An Updated Database Including Samples from Barbados, Mururoa and Tahiti
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1998-01-01Keywords
Society IslandsTahiti
Lesser Antilles
Barbados
French Polynesia
Mururoa Atoll
Tuamotu Islands
boreholes
Oceania
PolynesiaTh UAnthozoaCoelenterataprecisioncalibrationmass spectraspectratree ringsHolocenedata processingdata basesPleistoceneCenozoicQuaternaryC 14carbondatesisotopesradioactive isotopesInvertebrataabsolute ageAntillesCaribbean regionWest Indies
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Bard, E., Arnold, M., Hamelin, B., Tisnérat-Laborde, N., & Cabioch, G. (1998). Radiocarbon calibration by means of mass spectrometric 230 Th/234 U and 14C ages of corals: an updated database including samples from Barbados, Mururoa and Tahiti. Radiocarbon, 40(3), 1085-1092.Journal
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INTCAL 98: Calibration Issue.Additional Links
http://radiocarbon.webhost.uits.arizona.edu/Abstract
As first shown by Bard et al. (1990a), high-precision 230Th-234U ages can be used successfully to calibrate the radiocarbon time scale beyond the high-precision tree-ring calibration that now reaches 11,900 cal BP (Kromer and Spurk 1998). Using mass spectrometric techniques, we measured 14C and 230Th ages on new samples collected from boreholes drilled off the islands of Tahiti and Mururoa (French Polynesia) in order to complement the database previously obtained on Barbados corals (Bard et al. 1990a, 1993).Type
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