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10 000 yr record of extreme hydrologic events

scientific article published in April 2000

10000 yr record of extreme hydrologic events

scientific article published in 2000

10Be profiles in seawater

scientific article published in Nature

14C activity and global carbon cycle changes over the past 50,000 years.

scientific article published on January 2004

17th Century Variola Virus Reveals the Recent History of Smallpox.

scientific article published on 5 December 2016

26Al, 10Be and U–Th isotopes in Blake Outer Ridge sediments: implications for past changes in boundary scavenging

scientific article published in 2001

A Comparison of Marine and Terrestrial Radiocarbon Ages from Northern Chile

scientific article published in 1995

A case of early Wisconsinan “over-chill”: New radiocarbon evidence for early extirpation of western camel (Camelops hesternus) in eastern Beringia

scientific article published in September 2017

A comparison of U/Th and rapid-screen 14 C dates from Line Island fossil corals

scholarly article

A deep-sea coral record of North Atlantic radiocarbon through the Younger Dryas: Evidence for intermediate water/deepwater reorganization

A high-resolution record of Southern Ocean intermediate water radiocarbon over the past 30,000 years

A high-resolution record of atmospheric 14C based on Hulu Cave speleothem H82

scholarly article

A molecular portrait of maternal sepsis from Byzantine Troy

scientific article (publication date: 10 January 2017)

A multimillion-year-old record of Greenland vegetation and glacial history preserved in sediment beneath 1.4 km of ice at Camp Century

scientific article

A new genus of horse from Pleistocene North America

scientific article

A new high precision14CO2time series for North American continental air

article

A new high-resolution radiocarbon Bayesian age model of the Holocene and Late Pleistocene from core MD02-2494 and others, Effingham Inlet, British Columbia, Canada; with an application to the paleoseismic event chronology of the Cascadia Subduction Z

scholarly article

A new look at old carbon in active margin sediments

article

A revised age for the Kawakawa/Oruanui tephra, a key marker for the Last Glacial Maximum in New Zealand

article

A revised sea level history for the northern Strait of Georgia, British Columbia, Canada

scientific article published in July 2018

A survey of methane isotope abundance (14 C, 13 C, 2 H) from five nearshore marine basins that reveals unusual radiocarbon levels in subsurface waters

scholarly article

A tree-ring chronology and paleoclimate record for the Younger Dryas-Early Holocene transition from northeastern North America

AMS 14C Measurements of Fractionated Soil Organic Matter: An Approach to Deciphering the Soil Carbon Cycle

scientific article published in 1989

AMS Radiocarbon Dating of Rusty Iron

scientific article published in January 2003

Abrupt onset of the Little Ice Age triggered by volcanism and sustained by sea-ice/ocean feedbacks

article

Abrupt pre-Bølling-Allerød warming and circulation changes in the deep ocean

scientific article published in July 2014

Absolute calibration of 10Be AMS standards

article by Kunihiko Nishiizumi et al published May 2007 in Nuclear Instruments & Methods in Physics Research B

Accelerator mass spectrometry in biomedical dosimetry: relationship between low-level exposure and covalent binding of heterocyclic amine carcinogens to DNA

scientific article

Accelerator radiocarbon date confirms early deglaciation of the Queen Charlotte Islands

scholarly article

American mastodon extirpation in the Arctic and Subarctic predates human colonization and terminal Pleistocene climate change

scholarly article

Ancient horse genomes reveal the timing and extent of dispersals across the Bering Land Bridge

scientific article published in 2021

Angel's share combats wine fraud: (14)C dating of wine without opening the bottle

scientific article published on 10 August 2015

Assessing influences on speleothem dead carbon variability over the Holocene: Implications for speleothem-based radiocarbon calibration

scholarly article by Alexandra L. Noronha et al published May 2014 in Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Assessment of different screening methods for selecting palaeontological bone samples for peptide sequencing

scientific article published on 14 September 2020

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

scientific article published in Science

Atmospheric observation-based estimation of fossil fuel CO2 emissions from regions of central and southern California

scientific article published on 14 January 2019

Atmospheric observations of carbon monoxide and fossil fuel CO2 emissions from East Asia

article

Basin-wide estimates of the input of methane from seeps and clathrates to the Black Sea

article

Bayesian Analysis of High-Precision AMS<sup>14</sup>C Dates from a Prehistoric Mexican Shellmound

scientific article published in 2011

Beryllium geochemistry in soils: evaluation of 10Be/9Be ratios in authigenic minerals as a basis for age models

scholarly article

Bison phylogeography constrains dispersal and viability of the Ice Free Corridor in western Canada

scientific article

Blank Assessment for Ultra-Small Radiocarbon Samples: Chemical Extraction and Separation Versus AMS

scientific article published in 2010

COMPARING DIRECT CARBONATE AND STANDARD GRAPHITE 14 C DETERMINATIONS OF BIOGENIC CARBONATES

Camp Century ice core basal sediments record the absence of the Greenland Ice Sheet within the last million years

scientific article published on 23 March 2020

Carbon accumulation rates and the origin of the Holocene sapropel in the Black Sea

scholarly article

Carbon dioxide release from the North Pacific abyss during the last deglaciation

scientific article published in October 2007

Carbon-14 in methane sources and in atmospheric methane: the contribution from fossil carbon

scientific article published in July 1989

Changes in El Niño – Southern Oscillation (ENSO) conditions during the Greenland Stadial 1 (GS-1) chronozone revealed by New Zealand tree-rings

article

Charcoal-painted images from the French Neolithic Villevenard hypogea: an experimental protocol for radiocarbon dating of conserved and in situ carbon with consolidant contamination

scientific article published in June 2020

Comment on “Radiocarbon calibration curve spanning 0 to 50,000 years BP based on paired 230Th/234U/238U and 14C dates on pristine corals” by R.G. Fairbanks et al. (Quaternary Science Reviews 24 (2005) 1781–1796)

scientific article published in 2006

Comparison of 14CO2, CO, and SF6 as tracers for recently added fossil fuel CO2 in the atmosphere and implications for biological CO2 exchange

scholarly article

Compound-Specific Radiocarbon Analyses of Phospholipid Fatty Acids and <i>N</i>-Alkanes in Ocean Sediments

scientific article published in 2010

Computer simulation of MC-SNICS for performance improvements

Continued meltwater influence on North Atlantic Deep Water instabilities during the early Holocene

scholarly article

Corrections for contamination background in AMS 14C measurements

scientific article published in March 1997

Correlating the ancient Maya and modern European calendars with high-precision AMS 14C dating

scientific article

Correspondence: The Taupo eruption occurred in 232 ± 10 CE, and not later

Corrigendum: Radiocarbon constraints on the extent and evolution of the South Pacific glacial carbon pool.

scientific article published on 3 June 2016

Cosmogenic analysis of glacial terrains in the eastern Canadian Arctic: a test for inherited nuclides and the effectiveness of glacial erosion

scientific article published in 1999

DEVELOPMENT OF THE INTCAL DATABASE

scientific article published on 28 July 2023

Dated Rock Paintings at Red Cliffs, Arizona

scientific article published in 2000

Dating North America's oldest petroglyphs, Winnemucca Lake subbasin, Nevada

article

Dead wood biomass and turnover time, measured by radiocarbon, along a subalpine elevation gradient

scientific article

Decadally Resolved Lateglacial Radiocarbon Evidence from New Zealand Kauri

article

Deglacial changes in ocean circulation from an extended radiocarbon calibration

scientific article published in Nature

Determining the post-glacial evolution of a northeast Pacific coastal fjord using a multiproxy geochemical approachThis article is one of a series of papers published in this Special Issue on the theme Polar Climate Stability Network

scientific article

Dietary reconstruction and evidence of prey shifting in Pleistocene and recent gray wolves (Canis lupus) from Yukon Territory

scientific article published in 2021

Differences in 14 C Age Between Stratigraphically Associated Charcoal and Marine Shell from the Archaic Period Site of Kilometer 4, Southern Peru: Old Wood or Old Water?

2002 scholarly article by Douglas J Kennett et al.

Dorset Pre-Inuit and Beothuk foodways in Newfoundland, ca. AD 500-1829

scientific article published in PLoS ONE

Dynamic Intermediate Waters Across the Late Glacial Revealed by Paired Radiocarbon and Clumped Isotope Temperature Records

scientific article published on 10 July 2019

Environmental controls on silica sinter formation revealed by radiocarbon dating

scientific article published on 28 February 2019

Estimating US fossil fuel CO2 emissions from measurements of 14C in atmospheric CO2

scientific article published on 01 June 2020

Evidence of prehistoric human activity in the Falkland Islands

scientific article published on 29 October 2021

Exceptionally preserved asphaltic coprolites expand the spatiotemporal range of a North American paleoecological proxy

scientific article published on 19 March 2020

Female hunters of the early Americas

scientific article published on 04 November 2020

Findings from an in-Depth Annual Tree-Ring Radiocarbon Intercomparison

scientific article published in 2020

Fire history in western Patagonia from paired tree-ring fire-scar and charcoal records

Forest-killing diffuse CO2 emission at Mammoth Mountain as a sign of magmatic unrest

scientific article published in Nature

Forgotten news: Shellfish isotopic insight into changing sea-level and associated impact on the first settlers of the Mariana Archipelago

scientific article published in 2018

Fossil methane source dominates Cariaco Basin water column methane geochemistry

scholarly article by J. D. Kessler et al published June 2005 in Geophysical Research Letters

Fragmenting times: interpreting a Bayesian chronology for the Late Neolithic occupation of Çatalhöyük East, Turkey

scientific article published on 30 January 2015

Genetic Discontinuity between the Maritime Archaic and Beothuk Populations in Newfoundland, Canada

scientific article published on 10 October 2017

Genomic basis for skin phenotype and cold adaptation in the extinct Steller’s sea cow

scientific article published on 04 February 2022

Getting to the Bottom of It All: A Bayesian Approach to Dating the Start of Çatalhöyük

scientific article

Glacial Holocene environment of the southeastern Okhotsk Sea: evidence from geochemical and palaeontological data

scholarly article

Global Peak in Atmospheric Radiocarbon Provides a Potential Definition for the Onset of the Anthropocene Epoch in 1965.

scientific article published on 19 February 2018

Global reorganization of deep-sea circulation and carbon storage after the last ice age

Hemp in ancient rope and fabric from the Christmas Cave in Israel: talmudic background and DNA sequence identification

scientific article published in October 2011

Heterogeneous Hunter-Gatherer and Steppe-Related Ancestries in Late Neolithic and Bell Beaker Genomes from Present-Day France

Holocene Paleohydrology of the Tropical Andes from Lake Records

scholarly article

Identification of Preferential Paths of Fossil Carbon within Water Resource Recovery Facilities via Radiocarbon Analysis.

scientific article

Initial characterization of processes of soil carbon stabilization using forest stand-level radiocarbon enrichment

article

IntCal09 and Marine09 Radiocarbon Age Calibration Curves, 0–50,000 Years cal BP

scholarly article by Paula Reimer et al published 2009 in Radiocarbon

IntCal13 and Marine13 Radiocarbon Age Calibration Curves 0–50,000 Years cal BP

scientific article

Intcal04 Terrestrial Radiocarbon Age Calibration, 0–26 Cal Kyr BP

article

Is the Consensus Value of ANU Sucrose (IAEA C-6) Too High?

scientific article published in 2010

Isotopic evidence for the contemporary origin of high-molecular weight organic matter in oceanic environments

scientific article published in 1995

La Niña-like conditions in the eastern equatorial Pacific and a stronger Choco jet in the northern Andes during the last glaciation

article

Late Glacial to Holocene radiocarbon constraints on North Pacific Intermediate Water ventilation and deglacial atmospheric CO2 sources

scholarly article by Maureen Walczak et al published July 2014 in Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Late Prehistoric Petroleum Collection in Pennsylvania: Radiocarbon Evidence

Late Quaternary lake-level changes constrained by radiocarbon and stable isotope studies on sediment cores from Lake Titicaca, South America

article

Limited contribution of ancient methane to surface waters of the U.S. Beaufort Sea shelf

scientific article published on 17 January 2018

Linking emissions of fossil fuel CO2 and other anthropogenic trace gases using atmospheric 14CO2

article

Little Ice Age wetting of interior Asian deserts and the rise of the Mongol Empire

article

Long-living lotus: germination and soil {gamma}-irradiation of centuries-old fruits, and cultivation, growth, and phenotypic abnormalities of offspring

scientific article

Low Quaternary slip rate reconciles geodetic and geologic rates along the Altyn Tagh fault, northwestern Tibet

article

Low organic carbon accumulation rates in Black Sea sediments

scientific article published in Nature

Low reservoir ages for the surface ocean from mid-Holocene Florida corals

Mammuthus Population Dynamics in Late Pleistocene North America: Divergence, Phylogeography, and Introgression

scientific article (publication date: 26 April 2016)

Marine-derived 14C calibration and activity record for the past 50,000 years updated from the Cariaco Basin

scholarly article

Marine04 Marine Radiocarbon Age Calibration, 0–26 Cal Kyr Bp

article

Mass Spectrometric Radiocarbon Dates from Three Rock Paintings of Known Age

scientific article published in 2001

Measurements of in situ produced 14C in terrestrial rocks

article by Yusuke Yokoyama et al published August 2004 in Nuclear Instruments & Methods in Physics Research B

Millennial-Scale Drivers of Small Mammal Isotopic Niche Dynamics in Southern California

scientific article published on 28 May 2022

Millennial-scale drivers of small mammal isotopic niche dynamics in southern California

scientific article published in 2023

Millennial-scale isotope records from a wide-ranging predator show evidence of recent human impact to oceanic food webs ⬇️

scientific article (publication date: 28 May 2013)

Millennial-scale storminess variability in the northeastern United States during the Holocene epoch.

scientific article

Modifying a sealed tube zinc reduction method for preparation of AMS graphite targets: Reducing background and attaining high precision

scientific article published in 2007

Multiradionuclide evidence for an extreme solar proton event around 2,610 B.P. (∼660 BC)

scientific article published on 11 March 2019

New dates on northern yukon artifacts: holocene not upper pleistocene

scientific article published on 01 May 1986

New single amino acid hydroxyproline radiocarbon dates for two problematic American Mastodon fossils from Alaska

scholarly article by Shweta Nalawade-Chavan et al published April 2014 in Quaternary Geochronology

No signature of abyssal carbon in intermediate waters off Chile during deglaciation

article

NotCal04—Comparison/Calibration 14C Records 26–50 Cal Kyr BP

Orbital and millennium scale environmental changes in the southern Bering Sea during the last glacial-Holocene: Geochemical and paleontological evidence

scholarly article

Out of America: ancient DNA evidence for a new world origin of late quaternary woolly mammoths

scientific article

Palaeoproteomics resolves sloth relationships

scientific article published on 06 June 2019

Paleoclimatology

Performance and automation of ancient DNA capture with RNA hyRAD probes

scientific article published on 15 October 2021

Performance of catalytically condensed carbon for use in accelerator mass spectrometry

scholarly article

Planktic Foram Dates from the Indonesian Arc: Marine 14C Reservoir Ages and a Mythical AD 535 Volcanic Eruption

article published in 2013

Possible source of ancient carbon in phytolith concentrates from harvested grasses

article by G. M. Santos et al published 29 May 2012 in Biogeosciences

Postglacial evolution of a Pacific coastal fjord in British Columbia, Canada: interactions of sea-level change, crustal response, and environmental fluctuations — results from MONA core MD02-2494This article is one of a series of papers published i

scientific article

Potential Pitfalls of Pollen Dating

Prehistoric human impacts on Rapa, French Polynesia

article

Preliminary Report of the First Workshop of the Intcal04 Radiocarbon Calibration/Comparison Working Group

Pre–Younger Dryas megafaunal extirpation at Rancho La Brea linked to fire-driven state shift

scientific article published on 18 August 2023

Progress in AMS Measurements at the LLNL Spectrometer

scientific article published in 1992

Punctuated Shutdown of Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation during Greenland Stadial 1

scientific article

Quantification of soil production and downslope creep rates from cosmogenic 10Be accumulations on a hillslope profile

scholarly article

Quantifying ecosystem-atmosphere carbon exchange with a 14C label

scientific article published in 2002

Radiocarbon Analyses of Modern Organics at Monte Verde, Chile: No Evidence for a Local Reservoir Effect

article

Radiocarbon Dates of Kennewick Man ⬇️

scientific article published on May 22, 1998

Radiocarbon Dating and Dietary Stable Isotope Analysis of Kwaday Dän Ts'inchí

Radiocarbon Dating and Intercomparison of Some Early Historical Radiocarbon Samples

Radiocarbon Dating the Initial Upper Paleolithic on the East European Plain at Kulychivka (Western Ukraine) ⬇️

scientific article published in March 2021

Radiocarbon age anomaly at intermediate water depth in the Pacific Ocean during the last deglaciation

article

Radiocarbon analysis as a tool to understand the fate of fossil carbon in water recovery processes

scientific article published in 2017

Radiocarbon and geologic evidence reveal Ilopango volcano as source of the colossal ‘mystery’ eruption of 539/40 CE

scientific article published in October 2019

Radiocarbon bomb-peak signal in tree-rings from the tropical Andes register low latitude atmospheric dynamics in the Southern Hemisphere

scholarly article

Radiocarbon constraints on the extent and evolution of the South Pacific glacial carbon pool

scientific article published on 9 May 2016

Radiocarbon evidence for decomposition of aged organic matter in the vadose zone as the main source of speleothem carbon

scholarly article

Radiocarbon variability in the western North Atlantic during the last deglaciation

scientific article published on 3 November 2005

Rapid shifts in circulation and biogeochemistry of the Southern Ocean during deglacial carbon cycle events

scientific article published on 16 October 2020

Rapidly receding Arctic Canada glaciers revealing landscapes continuously ice-covered for more than 40,000 years

scientific article published in Nature Communications

Reconstructing lake and drainage basin history using terrestrial sediment layers: analysis of cores from a post-glacial lake in New England, USA

scholarly article

Regional patterns of radiocarbon and fossil fuel-derived CO<sub>2</sub>in surface air across North America

scientific article published in 2007

Reservoir Ages in Eastern Pacific Coastal and Estuarine Waters

scientific article published in 1996

Resolving an Anomolous Radiocarbon Determination on Mastodon Bone from Monte Verde, Chile

article

Resolving the cause of large differences between deglacial benthic foraminifera radiocarbon measurements in Santa Barbara Basin

article published in 2010

Resolving the phylogenetic position of Darwin's extinct ground sloth (Mylodon darwinii) using mitogenomic and nuclear exon data.

scientific article

Response to comment on "Evidence of prehistoric human activity in the Falkland Islands"

scientific article published on 29 April 2022

Rock-art image in Fern Cave, Lava Beds National Monument, California: not the AD 1054 (Crab Nebula) supernova

SHCal20 Southern Hemisphere Calibration, 0–55,000 Years cal BP

scientific article

Selection and Treatment of Data for Radiocarbon Calibration: An Update to the International Calibration (IntCal) Criteria

article by Paula Reimer et al published 2013 in Radiocarbon

Simple, Rapid, and Cost Effective: A Screening Method for 14C Analysis of Small Carbonate Samples

Stable Isotope and Radiocarbon Analyses of a Black Deposit Associated with Pictographs at Little Lost River Cave, Idaho

scientific article published in October 2002

Standards of evidence and Paleoindian demographics. ⬇️

scholarly article

Stepped-Combustion 14C Dating of Sediment: A Comparison with Established Techniques

scientific article

Substantial agreement on the timing and magnitude of Late Holocene ice cap expansion between East Greenland and the Eastern Canadian Arctic: a commentary on Lowell et al., 2013

scientific article published in October 2013

Synchronous centennial abrupt events in the ocean and atmosphere during the last deglaciation

scientific article

Synchronous radiocarbon and climate shifts during the last deglaciation

scientific article

THE EARLIEST SHELL FISHHOOKS FROM THE AMERICAS REVEAL FISHING TECHNOLOGY OF PLEISTOCENE MARITIME FORAGERS

Tar Trap: No Evidence of Domestic Dog Burial with “La Brea Woman”

Temporal and geographic extent of the late Holocene dry period in the central Great Basin, USA

scientific article published in 2023

Temporal deconvolution of vascular plant-derived fatty acids exported from terrestrial watersheds

scientific article

The Agnano–Monte Spina eruption (4100 years BP) in the restless Campi Flegrei caldera (Italy)

article

The Dating of a Middle Paleolithic Blade Industry in Southern Russia and Its Relationship to the Initial Upper Paleolithic ⬇️

scientific article published on 18 June 2019

The GISP Ice Core Record of Volcanism Since 7000 B.C.

scientific article published on 01 January 1995

The Influence of Calibration Curve Construction and Composition on the Accuracy and Precision of Radiocarbon Wiggle-Matching of Tree Rings, Illustrated by Southern Hemisphere Atmospheric Data Sets from AD 1500–1950

scientific article published in 2019

The IntCal20 Northern Hemisphere Radiocarbon Age Calibration Curve (0–55 cal kBP)

scientific article

The Keck Carbon Cycle AMS Laboratory, University of California, Irvine: Initial Operation and a Background Surprise

scientific article published in 2004

The LLNL ion source — past, present and future

scientific article published in 1990

The New Zealand Kauri (Agathis Australis) Research Project: A Radiocarbon Dating Intercomparison of Younger Dryas Wood and Implications for IntCal13

article

The Phytolith<sup>14</sup>C Puzzle: A Tale of Background Determinations and Accuracy Tests

scientific article published in 2010

The antiquity of Olivella shell beads at CA-ORA-64: AMS radiocarbon dated between 9420 and 7780 cal BP

The consequences of opening the Sunda Strait on the hydrography of the eastern tropical Indian Ocean

scholarly article

The easternmost Middle Paleolithic (Mousterian) from Jinsitai Cave, North China.

scientific article published on 31 October 2017

The extinction of Xenothrix mcgregori, Jamaica’s last monkey

scientific article published in 2017

The genomic history and global expansion of domestic donkeys

scientific article published on 9 September 2022

The origins and spread of domestic horses from the Western Eurasian steppes

The phylogenetic affinities of the extinct glyptodonts

scientific article

Timing and style of deposition on humid-temperate fans, Vermont, United States

scientific article published in February 2003

Tracking Five Millennia of Horse Management with Extensive Ancient Genome Time Series.

scientific article published on 2 May 2019

Transport of10Be and9Be in the ocean

scientific article

Tree rings and ice cores reveal 14C calibration uncertainties during the Younger Dryas

scientific article

Ultra small-mass AMS 14C sample preparation and analyses at KCCAMS/UCI Facility

Unprecedented recent summer warmth in Arctic Canada

article

Upper limit for neutron emission from cold d-t fusion

scientific article published on 01 May 1990

Use of tritium accelerator mass spectrometry for tree ring analysis

scientific article

Variability of Monthly Radiocarbon During the 1760S in Corals from the Galapagos Islands

Ventilation of the Deep Ocean Carbon Reservoir During the Last Deglaciation: Results From the Southeast Pacific

scientific article published in 2019

Vermilion Lakes Site: Adaptations and Environments in the Canadian Rockies during the Latest Pleistocene and Early Holocene

article

Vesuvius/Avellino, one possible source of seventeenth century BC climatic disturbances

scientific article published in Nature

Volcanism and deformation since 12,000 years at the Campi Flegrei caldera (Italy)

article

Volcanism, Ecology and Culture: A Reassessment of the Volcán Ilopango TBJ Eruption in the Southern Maya Realm

article

Weathering controls on mechanisms of carbon storage in grassland soils

Widespread collapse of the Ross Ice Shelf during the late Holocene.

scientific article published on 16 February 2016

Wiggle-match radiocarbon dating of the Taupo eruption

scientific article published on 11 October 2019

Younger Dryas Climatic Reversal in Northeastern USA? AMS Ages for an Old Problem

scientific article

Δ<sup>14</sup>C PEAKS APPEARING IN EARLYWOOD AND LATEWOOD TREE RINGS (AD 770–780) IN NORTHEASTERN ARIZONA

scientific article published in 2020

Δ<sup>14</sup>C PEAKS APPEARING IN EARLYWOOD AND LATEWOOD TREE RINGS (AD 770–780) IN NORTHEASTERN ARIZONA – CORRIGENDUM

scientific article published in 2021

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