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Extended 14C Data Base and Revised CALIB 3.0 14C Age Calibration Program

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2016

Minze Stuiver
Affiliation:
Department of Geological Sciences and Quaternary Research Center, University of Washington Seattle, Washington 98195 USA
Paula J. Reimer
Affiliation:
Department of Geological Sciences and Quaternary Research Center, University of Washington Seattle, Washington 98195 USA
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The age calibration program, CALIB (Stuiver & Reimer 1986), first made available in 1986 and subsequently modified in 1987 (revision 2.0 and 2.1), has been amended anew. The 1993 program (revision 3.0) incorporates further refinements and a new calibration data set covering nearly 22,000 cal yr (≈18,400 14C yr). The new data, and corrections to the previously used data set, derive from a 6-yr (1986–1992) time-scale calibration effort of several laboratories.

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