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The Radiocarbon Calibration from An Irish Oak Perspective

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2016

Mike G L Baillie
Mike G L Baillie*
Affiliation:
Palaeoecology Centre, School of Geosciences, Queen's University, Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom. Email: mbaillie@queens-belfast.ac.uk
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Between 1968 and 1984, a 7272-yr oak chronology was constructed in Belfast, Northern Ireland, in order to provide a local calibration of the radiocarbon timescale. This single-minded exercise in chronology construction provided an exciting occupation for a group of researchers that can be likened to a race in which there was no guarantee of a finish. The existence of a parallel dendrochronological enterprise in Germany added both competition and the possibility of independent replication. The initial completion of both chronologies by 1984, and respective calibrations by 1986, left an important legacy of 2 absolutely dated tree-ring chronologies for multifarious research purposes.

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Calibration
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Radiocarbon , Volume 51 , Issue 1 , 2009, pp. 361 - 371
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Copyright © 2009 by the Arizona Board of Regents on behalf of the University of Arizona 

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