Improved age estimates for key Late Quaternary European tephra horizons in the RESET lattice. / Bronk Ramsey, Christopher; Albert, Paul; Blockley, Simon; Hardiman, Mark; Housley, Rupert; Lane, Christine S.; Lee, Sharen; Matthews, Ian; Smith, Victoria C.; Lowe, Joseph.
In: Quaternary Science Reviews, Vol. 118, 15.06.2015, p. 18-32.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Improved age estimates for key Late Quaternary European tephra horizons in the RESET lattice. / Bronk Ramsey, Christopher; Albert, Paul; Blockley, Simon; Hardiman, Mark; Housley, Rupert; Lane, Christine S.; Lee, Sharen; Matthews, Ian; Smith, Victoria C.; Lowe, Joseph.
In: Quaternary Science Reviews, Vol. 118, 15.06.2015, p. 18-32.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Improved age estimates for key Late Quaternary European tephra horizons in the RESET lattice
AU - Bronk Ramsey, Christopher
AU - Albert, Paul
AU - Blockley, Simon
AU - Hardiman, Mark
AU - Housley, Rupert
AU - Lane, Christine S.
AU - Lee, Sharen
AU - Matthews, Ian
AU - Smith, Victoria C.
AU - Lowe, Joseph
PY - 2015/6/15
Y1 - 2015/6/15
N2 - The research project ‘Response of Humans to Abrupt Environmental Transitions’ (RESET) used tephra layers to tie together and synchronise the chronologies of stratigraphic records at archaeological and environmental sites. With the increasing importance of tephra as chronological markers in sedimentarysequences, both in this project and more generally, comes a requirement to have good estimates for the absolute age of these volcanic horizons. This paper summarises the chronology of the key tephra in the RESET tephra lattice in the time range 10e60 ka BP, from the existing literature, from papers produced aspart of the RESET project, and reanalysis conducted for this paper. The paper outlines the chronological approach taken to the dating of tephra within the RESET project, and the basis for further work, as part of the INTIMATE (INTegrating Ice core MArine and TErrestrial records) initiative. For each of the tephra layers in the lattice, the existing literature is discussed and, where relevant date estimates updated using the latest radiocarbon calibration curves (IntCal13 and Marine13) and methods. Maps show the approximate extent of tephra finds, giving a visual indication of the coverage of the lattice in different time-periods.
AB - The research project ‘Response of Humans to Abrupt Environmental Transitions’ (RESET) used tephra layers to tie together and synchronise the chronologies of stratigraphic records at archaeological and environmental sites. With the increasing importance of tephra as chronological markers in sedimentarysequences, both in this project and more generally, comes a requirement to have good estimates for the absolute age of these volcanic horizons. This paper summarises the chronology of the key tephra in the RESET tephra lattice in the time range 10e60 ka BP, from the existing literature, from papers produced aspart of the RESET project, and reanalysis conducted for this paper. The paper outlines the chronological approach taken to the dating of tephra within the RESET project, and the basis for further work, as part of the INTIMATE (INTegrating Ice core MArine and TErrestrial records) initiative. For each of the tephra layers in the lattice, the existing literature is discussed and, where relevant date estimates updated using the latest radiocarbon calibration curves (IntCal13 and Marine13) and methods. Maps show the approximate extent of tephra finds, giving a visual indication of the coverage of the lattice in different time-periods.
KW - Dating
KW - Tephrochronology
KW - Radiocarbon
KW - Age-depth modelling
KW - Archaeology
KW - QUATERNARY ENVIRONMENTS
U2 - 10.1016/j.quascirev.2014.11.007
DO - 10.1016/j.quascirev.2014.11.007
M3 - Article
VL - 118
SP - 18
EP - 32
JO - Quaternary Science Reviews
JF - Quaternary Science Reviews
SN - 0277-3791
ER -