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IntCal09 and Marine09 Radiocarbon Age Calibration Curves, 0–50,000 Years cal BP

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2016

P J Reimer ,
M G L Baillie ,
E Bard ,
A Bayliss ,
J W Beck ,
P G Blackwell ,
C Bronk Ramsey ,
C E Buck ,
G S Burr  and
R L Edwards
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P J Reimer
Affiliation:
14CHRONO Centre for Climate, the Environment and Chronology, School of Geography, Archaeology and Palaeoecology, Queen's University Belfast BT7 1NN, United Kingdom.
M G L Baillie
Affiliation:
14CHRONO Centre for Climate, the Environment and Chronology, School of Geography, Archaeology and Palaeoecology, Queen's University Belfast BT7 1NN, United Kingdom.
E Bard
Affiliation:
CEREGE, Collège de France, CNRS, IRD, University Paul-Cézanne Aix-Marseille, Europole de l'Arbois BP 80, 13545 Aix en Provence Cedex 4, France.
A Bayliss
Affiliation:
English Heritage, 1 Waterhouse Square, 138-142 Holborn, London EC1N 2ST, United Kingdom.
J W Beck
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721, USA.
P G Blackwell
Affiliation:
Department of Probability and Statistics, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S3 7RH, United Kingdom.
C Bronk Ramsey
Affiliation:
Research Laboratory for Archaeology and the History of Art, Dyson Perrins Building, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3QY, United Kingdom.
C E Buck
Affiliation:
Department of Probability and Statistics, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S3 7RH, United Kingdom.
G S Burr
Affiliation:
Department of Geosciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721, USA.
R L Edwards
Affiliation:
Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Minnesota, Minnesota 55455-0219, USA.
M Friedrich
Affiliation:
Institute of Botany (210), Hohenheim University, D-70593 Stuttgart, Germany. Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften, Im Neuenheimer Feld 229, D-69120 Heidelberg, Germany.
P M Grootes
Affiliation:
Leibniz Laboratory, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel 24098, Germany.
T P Guilderson
Affiliation:
Center for Accelerator Mass Spectrometry L-397, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94550, USA. Ocean Sciences Department, University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California 95064, USA.
I Hajdas
Affiliation:
Labor für Ionenstrahlphysik, ETH, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland.
T J Heaton
Affiliation:
Department of Probability and Statistics, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S3 7RH, United Kingdom.
A G Hogg
Affiliation:
Radiocarbon Dating Laboratory, University of Waikato, Private Bag 3105, Hamilton, New Zealand.
K A Hughen
Affiliation:
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Department of Marine Chemistry & Geochemistry, Woods Hole, Massachusetts 02543, USA.
K F Kaiser
Affiliation:
Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL, Zurcherstrasse 111, 8903 Birmensdorf, Switzerland. Department of Geography, University of Zurich-Irchel, 8057 Zurich, Switzerland.
B Kromer
Affiliation:
Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften, Im Neuenheimer Feld 229, D-69120 Heidelberg, Germany.
F G McCormac
Affiliation:
14CHRONO Centre for Climate, the Environment and Chronology, School of Geography, Archaeology and Palaeoecology, Queen's University Belfast BT7 1NN, United Kingdom.
S W Manning
Affiliation:
Malcolm and Carolyn Wiener Laboratory for Aegean and Near Eastern Dendrochronology, Cornell Tree Ring Laboratory, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, USA.
R W Reimer
Affiliation:
14CHRONO Centre for Climate, the Environment and Chronology, School of Geography, Archaeology and Palaeoecology, Queen's University Belfast BT7 1NN, United Kingdom.
D A Richards
Affiliation:
School of Geographical Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 1SS, United Kingdom.
J R Southon
Affiliation:
Department of Earth System Science, University of California-Irvine, Irvine, California 92697, USA.
S Talamo
Affiliation:
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Department of Human Evolution, Deutscher Platz 6 D-04103 Leipzig, Germany.
C S M Turney
Affiliation:
School of Geography, University of Exeter, Exeter EX4 4RJ, United Kingdom.
J van der Plicht
Affiliation:
Centrum voor Isotopen Onderzoek, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, Nijenborgh 4, 9747 AG Groningen, Netherlands. Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University, P.O.Box 9515, 2300 RA Leiden, Netherlands.
C E Weyhenmeyer
Affiliation:
Department of Earth Sciences, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York 13244-1070, USA.
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The IntCal04 and Marine04 radiocarbon calibration curves have been updated from 12 cal kBP (cal kBP is here defined as thousands of calibrated years before AD 1950), and extended to 50 cal kBP, utilizing newly available data sets that meet the IntCal Working Group criteria for pristine corals and other carbonates and for quantification of uncertainty in both the 14C and calendar timescales as established in 2002. No change was made to the curves from 0–12 cal kBP. The curves were constructed using a Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) implementation of the random walk model used for IntCal04 and Marine04. The new curves were ratified at the 20th International Radiocarbon Conference in June 2009 and are available in the Supplemental Material at www.radiocarbon.org.

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Radiocarbon , Volume 51 , Issue 4 , 2009 , pp. 1111 - 1150
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