SHCal20: The SHCal20 southern hemisphere radiocarbon curve for the...

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The SHCal20 southern hemisphere radiocarbon curve for the 0-55,000 yr BP period

Description

Atmospheric radiocarbon calibration curve for the period 0 to 55,000 yr BP for the southern hemisphere.

Usage

data(SHCal20)

Format

A data frame with 9501 rows and 5 variables.

CAL.BP

Calibrated age in years Before Present (BP).

C14.age

C14 age in years BP.

Sigma.C14.age

Standard deviation for C14.age.

Delta.14C

Delta.14C value in per mil.

Sigma.Delta.14C

Standard deviation of Delta.14C in per mil.

Details

All details about the derivation of this dataset are provided in Hogg et al. (2020).

Author(s)

Ingrid Chanca [e-mail]

Source

<https://doi.org/10.1017/RDC.2020.59>

References

Hogg, A., Heaton, T., Hua, Q., Palmer, J., Turney, C., Southon, J., . . . Wacker, L. (2020). SHCal20 Southern Hemisphere Calibration, 0–55,000 Years cal BP. Radiocarbon, 62(4), 759-778. doi:10.1017/RDC.2020.59

Examples

    plot(SHCal20$CAL.BP, SHCal20$Delta.14C, type="l", 
         xlab="cal BP", ylab="Delta14C (per mil)")

SoilR documentation built on Oct. 13, 2023, 5:06 p.m.