SoilR (version 1.1-23)

IntCal09: Northern Hemisphere atmospheric radiocarbon for the pre-bomb period

Description

Northern Hemisphere atmospheric radiocarbon calibration curve for the period 0 to 50,000 yr BP.

Usage

data(IntCal09)

source

http://www.radiocarbon.org/IntCal09

Details

Deltal.14C is age-corrected as per Stuiver and Polach (1977). All details about the derivation of this dataset are provided in Reimer et al. (2009).

References

P. Reimer, M.Baillie, E. Bard, A. Bayliss, J. Beck, P. Blackwell, C. Ramsey, C. Buck, G. Burr, R. Edwards, et al. 2009. IntCal09 and Marine09 radiocarbon age calibration curves, 0 - 50,000 years cal bp. Radiocarbon, 51(4):1111 - 1150.

M. Stuiver and H. A. Polach. 1977. Rerporting of C-14 data. Radiocarbon, 19(3):355 - 363.

Examples

par(mfrow=c(2,1))
plot(IntCal09$CAL.BP, IntCal09$C14.age, type="l")
polygon(x=c(IntCal09$CAL.BP,rev(IntCal09$CAL.BP)),
	y=c(IntCal09$C14.age+IntCal09$Error,rev(IntCal09$C14.age-IntCal09$Error)),
	col="gray",border=NA)
lines(IntCal09$CAL.BP,IntCal09$C14.age)

plot(IntCal09$CAL.BP,IntCal09$Delta.14C,type="l")
polygon(x=c(IntCal09$CAL.BP,rev(IntCal09$CAL.BP)),
	y=c(IntCal09$Delta.14C+IntCal09$Sigma,rev(IntCal09$Delta.14C-IntCal09$Sigma)),
	col="gray",border=NA)
lines(IntCal09$CAL.BP,IntCal09$Delta.14C)
par(mfrow=c(1,1))