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A Marine Reservoir Correction Database and On-Line Interface

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2016

P J Reimer  and
R W Reimer
P J Reimer*
Affiliation:
School of Archaeology and Palaeoecology, Queen's University of Belfast, Belfast BT7 INN, Northern Ireland
R W Reimer
Affiliation:
School of Archaeology and Palaeoecology, Queen's University of Belfast, Belfast BT7 INN, Northern Ireland
*
Corresponding author. Email: pjreimer@calib.org.
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Abstract

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Calibration is essential for interpretation of radiocarbon dates, especially when the 14C dates are compared to historical or climatic records with a different chronological basis. 14C ages of samples from the marine environment, such as shells or fish bones, or samples with a marine component, such as human bone in coastal regions, require an additional consideration because of the reservoir age of the ocean. While the pre-industrial global mean reservoir correction, R(t), is about 400 years, local variations (ΔR) can be several hundred years or more. ΔR compilations on a global scale have been undertaken previously (Stuiver et al. 1986; Stuiver and Braziunas 1993), but have not been updated recently. Here we describe an on-line reservoir correction database accessed via mapping software. Rather than publishing a static ΔR compilation, new data will be incorporated when it becomes available. The on-line marine reservoir correction database can be accessed at the website http://www.calib.org/.

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II. Getting More from the Data
Information
Radiocarbon , Volume 43 , Issue 2A: Proceedings of the 17th International Radiocarbon Conference (Part 1 of 3) , 2001 , pp. 461 - 463
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Copyright © The Arizona Board of Regents on behalf of the University of Arizona 

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