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Illuminating Intcal During the Younger Dryas

Autoři	REINIG Frederick SOOKDEO Adam ESPER Jan FRIEDRICH Michael GUIDOBALDI Giulia HELLE Gerhard KROMER Bernd NIEVERGELT Daniel PAULY Maren TEGEL Willy TREYDTE Kerstin WACKER Lukas BÜNTGEN Ulf
Rok publikování	2020
Druh	Článek v odborném periodiku
Časopis / Zdroj	Radiocarbon
Fakulta / Pracoviště MU	Přírodovědecká fakulta
Citace
www	https://doi.org/10.1017/RDC.2020.15[Opens%20in%20a%20new%20window]
Doi	http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/RDC.2020.15
Klíčová slova	dendrochronology; IntCal; Late Glacial period; radiocarbon AMS dating; Switzerland
Popis	As the worldwide standard for radiocarbon (C-14) dating over the past ca. 50,000 years, the International Calibration Curve (IntCal) is continuously improving towards higher resolution and replication. Tree-ring-based C-14 measurements provide absolute dating throughout most of the Holocene, although high-precision data are limited for the Younger Dryas interval and farther back in time. Here, we describe the dendrochronological characteristics of 1448 new C-14 dates, between similar to 11,950 and 13,160 cal BP, from 13 pines that were growing in Switzerland. Significantly enhancing the ongoing IntCal update (IntCal20), this Late Glacial (LG) compilation contains more annually precise C-14 dates than any other contribution during any other period of time. Thus, our results now provide unique geochronological dating into the Younger Dryas, a pivotal period of climate and environmental change at the transition from LG into Early Holocene conditions.