Atmospheric 14 C/ 12 C changes during the last glacial period from Hulu Cave-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Atmospheric 14 C/ 12 C changes during the last glacial period from Hulu Cave

Published:2018-12-14 Issue:6420 Volume:362 Page:1293-1297
ISSN:0036-8075
Container-title:Science
language:en
Short-container-title:Science

Author:

Cheng Hai¹²^ORCID,Edwards R. Lawrence²^ORCID,Southon John³,Matsumoto Katsumi²^ORCID,Feinberg Joshua M.²⁴^ORCID,Sinha Ashish⁵^ORCID,Zhou Weijian⁶,Li Hanying¹^ORCID,Li Xianglei¹^ORCID,Xu Yao¹^ORCID,Chen Shitao⁷,Tan Ming⁸,Wang Quan⁷,Wang Yongjin⁷,Ning Youfeng¹^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Institute of Global Environmental Change, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China.

2. Department of Earth Sciences, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA.

3. Department of Earth System Science, University of California, Irvine, CA, USA.

4. Institute for Rock Magnetism, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA.

5. Department of Earth Science, California State University Dominguez Hills, Carson, CA, USA.

6. Institute of Earth Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xi’an, China.

7. College of Geography Science, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, China.

8. Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.

Abstract

The whole story An accurate, precise record of the carbon-14 ( 14 C) content of the atmosphere is important for developing chronologies in climate change, archaeology, and many other disciplines. Cheng et al. provide a record that covers the full range of the 14 C dating method (∼54,000 years), using paired measurements of 14 C/ 12 C and thorium-230 ( 230 Th) ages from two stalagmites from Hulu Cave, China. The advantage of matching absolute 230 Th ages and 14 C/ 12 C allowed the authors to fashion a seamless record from a single source with low uncertainties, particularly in the older sections. Science , this issue p. 1293

Funder

National Science Foundation

NSF Office of the Director

National Natural Science Foundation of China

Publisher

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Subject

Multidisciplinary

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