Hostname: page-component-5db58dd55d-f6s65 Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2026-05-27T11:04:03.896Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Age Determination of the Kawagodaira Volcanic Eruption in Japan by 14C Wiggle-Matching

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 February 2016

Sayaka Tani ,
Hiroyuki Kitagawa ,
Wan Hong ,
Jung Hun Park ,
Ki Suk Sung  and
Gyujun Park
Sayaka Tani
Affiliation:
Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Nagoya University, Japan
Hiroyuki Kitagawa*
Affiliation:
Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Nagoya University, Japan
Wan Hong
Affiliation:
Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources (KIGAM), Korea
Jung Hun Park
Affiliation:
Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources (KIGAM), Korea
Ki Suk Sung
Affiliation:
Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources (KIGAM), Korea
Gyujun Park
Affiliation:
Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources (KIGAM), Korea
*
2 Corresponding author. Email: hiroyuki.kitagawa@nagoya-u.jp.
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Abstract

The Kawagodaira Volcano is located on the northwest slope of Amagi Volcano on the Izu Peninsula of central Japan. The fine pumice that erupted from Kawagodaira Volcano is widely distributed in the central and western parts of the Japanese mainland. Here, we report an accurate eruption age determined by radiocarbon wiggle-matching of a Japanese cedar timber excavated from the pyroclastic deposit at the pumice flow terminal of Kawagodaira Volcano. The 14C wiggle-match estimate for the Kawagodaira Volcano eruption is 1210–1187 cal BC (95.4% confidence level).

Information

Type
Articles
Information
Radiocarbon , Volume 55 , Issue 2: Proceedings of the 21st International Radiocarbon Conference (Part 1 of 2) , 2013 , pp. 748 - 752
Copyright
Copyright © 2013 by the Arizona Board of Regents on behalf of the University of Arizona 

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

Article purchase

Temporarily unavailable

References

Bronk Ramsey, C. 2009. Bayesian analysis of radiocarbon dates. Radiocarbon 51(1):337–60.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Bronk Ramsey, C, Manning, SW, Galimberti, M. 2004. Dating the volcanic eruption at Thera. Radiocarbon 46(2):325–44.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Hong, W, Park, JH, Sung, KS, Woo, HJ, Kim, JK, Choi, HW, Kim, GD. 2010. A new 1MV AMS facility at KIGAM. Radiocarbon 52(2–3):243–51.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Hong, W, Park, JH, Park, WK, Sung, KS, Lee, KH, Park, G, Kim, YE, Kim, JK, Choi, HW, Kim, GD, Woo, HJ, Nam, TG. 2013. Calibration curve from AD 1250 to AD 1650 by measurements of tree-rings grown on the Korean peninsula. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research B 294:435–9.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Imamura, M, Ozaki, H, Mitsutani, T, Niu, E, Itoh, S. 2007. Radiocarbon wiggle-matching of Japanese historical materials with a possible systematic age offset. Radiocarbon 49(2):331–7.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Kigoshi, K, Endo, K. 1963. Gakushuin natural radiocarbon measurements II. Radiocarbon 5:109–17.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Kromer, B, Manning, SW, Friedrich, M, Talamo, S, Trano, N. 2010. 14C calibration in the 2nd and 1st millennia BC—Eastern Mediterranean Radiocarbon Comparison Project (EMRCP). Radiocarbon 52(3):875–86.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Machida, H, Arai, F. 1992. Atlas of Tephra in and Around Japan. Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press. In Japanese.Google Scholar
Manning, SW, Pulak, C, Kromer, B, Talamo, S, Bronk Ramsey, C, Dee, M. 2009. Absolute age of the Uluburun shipwreck: a key Late Bronze Age time-capsule for the East Mediterranean. In: Manning, SW, Bruce, MJ, editors. Tree-Rings, Kings and Old World Archaeology and Environment: Papers Presented in Honor of Peter Ian Kuniholm. Oxford: Oxbow Books. p 163–87.Google Scholar
Manning, SW, Kromer, B, Bronk Ramsey, C, Pearson, CL, Talamo, S, Trano, N, Watkins, DJ. 2010. 14C record and wiggle-match placement for the Anatolian (Gordion area) juniper tree-ring chronology ≃1729 to 751 cal BP, and typical Aegean/Anatolian (growing season related) regional 14C offset assessment. Radiocarbon 52(4): 1571–97.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Nakamura, T, Miyahara, H, Masuda, M, Menjo, H, Kuwana, K, Kimura, K, Okuno, M, Minami, M, Oda, H, Rakowski, A, Ohta, T, Ikeda, A, Niue, E. 2007. High precision 14C measurements and wiggle-match dating of tree rings at Nagoya University. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research B 259(1):408–13.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Ozaki, H, Imamura, M, Matsuzaki, H, Mitsutani, T. 2007. Radiocarbon in 9th to 5th century BC tree-ring samples from the Ouban 1 archaeological site, Hiroshima, Japan. Radiocarbon 49(2):473–9.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Reimer, PJ, Baillie, MGL, Bard, E, Bayliss, A, Beck, JW, Blackwell, PG, Bronk Ramsey, C, Buck, CE, Burr, GS, Edwards, RL, Friedrich, M, Grootes, PM, Guilderson, TP, Hajdas, I, Heaton, T, Hogg, AG, Hughen, KA, Kaiser, KF, Kromer, B, McCormac, FG, Manning, SW, Reimer, RW, Richards, DA, Southon, JR, Talamo, S, Turney, CSM, van der Plicht, J, Weyhenmeyer, CE. 2009. IntCal09 and Marine09 radiocarbon age calibration curves, 0–50,000 years cal BP. Radiocarbon 51(4): 1111–50.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Sakamoto, M, Imanura, M, van der Plicht, J, Mitsutani, T Sahara, M. 2003. Radiocarbon calibration for Japanese wood samples. Radiocarbon 45(1):81–9.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Shimada, S. 2000. Eruption of the Amagoi-Kawagodaira volcano and paleo-environments in the late and latest period around Izu Peninsula. Quaternary Research 39(2): 151–64. In Japanese with English abstract.Google Scholar
Stuiver, M, Polach, HA. 1977. Discussion: reporting of 14C data. Radiocarbon 19(3):355–63.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Stuiver, M, Reimer, PJ, Bard, E, Beck, JW, Burr, GS, Hughen, KA, Kromer, B, McCormac, G, van der Plicht, J, Spurk, M. 1998. INTCAL98 radiocarbon age calibration, 24,000–0 cal BP. Radiocarbon 40(3): 1041–83.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Takemura, K, Kitagawa, H, Hayashida, A, Yaduda, Y. 1994 Sedimentary facies and chronology of core samples from Lake Mikata, Lake Suigetsu and Kurota Lowland, central Japan—sedimentary environment in Mikata Lowland since the last interglacial time. Journal of Geography 103(3):233–42. In Japanese with English abstract.Google Scholar
Takemura, K, Iwabe, C, Hayashida, A, Danhara, T, Kitagawa, H, Haraguchi, T, Sato, T, Ishikawa, N. 2010. Stratigraphy of marker tephras and sediments during the past 50,000 years from multiple sites in Lake Biwa, Japan. Quaternary Research 49(3): 147–60. In Japanese with English abstract.Google Scholar