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Abrupt Climate Change around 2,650 BP in North-West Europe: Evidence for Climatic Teleconnections and a Tentative Explanation

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Water, Environment and Society in Times of Climatic Change

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Natural variations in atmospheric 14C, which are expressed as wiggles in the radiocarbon calibration curve (Stuiver et al, 1993) severely limit the possibilities for fine-resolution dating of changes in vegetation and climate as recorded in lake deposits and raised bogs (e.g van Geel, 1978; Magny, 1993a; Barber et al, 1994). Van Geel and Mook (1989) stressed the importance of 14C Wiggle-Match Dating (WMD) of organic deposits, given that WMD can reveal relationships between 14C variations and short-term climatic fluctuations caused by solar and/or geomagnetic variations. Kilian et al (1995) have shown that, by using this strategy, raised-bog deposits in particular can be dated more precisely. Hence the raised-bog archive can be compared effectively with other proxy data archives, the more so because WMD has shown that an unexpected 14C reservoir effect plays a role in dating raised-bog deposits (individual conventional radiocarbon dates appear to be 100 to 250 years too old). Wiggle-matching is an elegant way of identifying this effect, and of estimating its magnitude.

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van Geel, B., Renssen, H. (1998). Abrupt Climate Change around 2,650 BP in North-West Europe: Evidence for Climatic Teleconnections and a Tentative Explanation. In: Issar, A.S., Brown, N. (eds) Water, Environment and Society in Times of Climatic Change. Water Science and Technology Library, vol 31. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-3659-6_2

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