On the need for further isotopic measurements from tree rings
Archaeological pressure for better chronology has provided the scientific community with long tree-ring chronologies and high-precision radiocarbon calibration curves. Physicists are now using the calibration curves as the only available proxy measure of past solar variation. The underlying tree-rin...
| Published in: | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series A, Mathematical and Physical Sciences |
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| Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
| Language: | English |
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The Royal Society
1990
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| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsta.1990.0024 https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rsta.1990.0024 |
| Summary: | Archaeological pressure for better chronology has provided the scientific community with long tree-ring chronologies and high-precision radiocarbon calibration curves. Physicists are now using the calibration curves as the only available proxy measure of past solar variation. The underlying tree-ring chronologies can, in theory, offer three lines of research potential: (1) the analysis of other isotopes on a scale of years, (2) the possibility of climatic data on a time resolution compatible with the calibration and (3) possible refinement of the ice-core timescales, by linking related (volcanic) events in both records. |
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