Variations of Radiocarbon in Tree Rings: Southern Hemisphere Offset Preliminary Results
- 1 January 1998
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Radiocarbon
- Vol. 40 (3) , 1153-1159
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0033822200019184
Abstract
The Queen's University of Belfast, Northern Ireland and University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand radiocarbon laboratories have undertaken a series of high-precision measurements on decadal samples of dendrochronologically dated oak (Quercus patrea) and cedar (Libocedrus bidwillii) from Great Britain and New Zealand, respectively. The results show a real atmospheric offset of 3.4 ± 0.6% (27.2 ± 4.714C yr) between the two locations for the interval ad 1725 to ad 1885, with the Southern Hemisphere being depleted inl4C. This result is less than the value currently used to correct Southern Hemisphere calibrations, possibly indicating a gradient in Δ14C within the Southern Hemisphere.Keywords
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