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Summary

radiocarbon dating calibration curve.

data sources:

• Stuiver, M., P. J. Reimer and T. F. Braziunas. High-Precision Radiocarbon Age Calibration for Terrestrial and Marine Samples. Radiocarbon 40, 1127-1151 (1998). Downloadbar von University of Washington, Quaternary Isotope Lab: http://depts.washington.edu/qil/datasets/uwten98_14c.txt

Only in earlier versions of this file:

• Levin, I., B. Kromer, H. Schoch-Fischer, M. Bruns, M. Münnich, D. Berdau, J.C. Vogel, and K.O. Münnich, 1994. δ14CO2 record from Vermunt. In Trends: A Compendium of Data on Global Change. Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, U.S. Department of Energy, Oak Ridge, Tenn., U.S.A. http://cdiac.esd.ornl.gov/trends/co2/cent-verm.htm

Gnuplot source code

This vector image was created with gnuplot.

 reset
 set term svg enhanced
 set output "calib.svg"
 set grid y
 #set xlabel 'year'
 set ylabel 'radiocarbon age BP'
 
 set arrow 1 from 1950,2000 to 1950,500
 set label 1 "\"present\" 1950 AD" at graph 0.98,first 2500 right
 
 # Remember that the year before 1 AD is 1 BC.
 set xtics ("1 AD" 1, "1000 AD" 1000, "2000 AD" 2000, "1000 BC" -999, "2000 BC" -1999, "3000 BC" -2999, "4000 BC" -3999, "5000 BC" -4999)
 
 plot -4999:2200  1950-x title 'uncalibrated' 3, "uwten98_14c.txt" us 1:4 title 'calibrated' w l 1
 set output

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