SoilR (version 1.1-23)

IntCal13: Atmospheric radiocarbon for the 0-50,000 yr BP period

Description

Atmospheric radiocarbon calibration curve for the period 0 to 50,000 yr BP. This is the most recent update to the internationally agreed calibration curve and superseds IntCal09.

Usage

data(IntCal13)

source

http://www.radiocarbon.org/IntCal13

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. (2013).

References

Reimer PJ, Bard E, Bayliss A, Beck JW, Blackwell PG, Bronk Ramsey C, Buck CE, Cheng H, Edwards RL, Friedrich M, Grootes PM, Guilderson TP, Haflidason H, Hajdas I, Hatte C, Heaton TJ, Hogg AG, Hughen KA, Kaiser KF, Kromer B, Manning SW, Niu M, Reimer RW, Richards DA, Scott EM, Southon JR, Turney CSM, van der Plicht J. 2013. IntCal13 and MARINE13 radiocarbon age calibration curves 0-50000 years calBP. Radiocarbon 55(4): 1869-1887. DOI: 10.2458/azu_js_rc.55.16947

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

Examples

plot(IntCal13$CAL.BP,IntCal13$C14.age-IntCal13$Error,type="l",col=2,
          xlab="cal BP",ylab="14C BP")
     lines(IntCal13$CAL.BP,IntCal13$C14.age+IntCal13$Error,col=2)

     plot(IntCal13$CAL.BP,IntCal13$Delta.14C+IntCal13$Sigma,type="l",col=2,
          xlab="cal BP",ylab="Delta14C")
     lines(IntCal13$CAL.BP,IntCal13$Delta.14C-IntCal13$Sigma,col=2)