Bayesian age-depth model for sediment core of Lake Chalco, Mexico (40-0 kcal BP) (NERC Grant NE/S009035/1)

A Bayesian age-depth model was constructed of the radiocarbon dates of the MexiDrill composite core. The age-depth model was produced using rbacon (Blaauw and Christen 2011, Bayesian Analysis 6(3): 457-474, doi: 10.1214/11-BA618), and was run in R as rbacon (CRAN version 3.2.0) using all default settings except for: thick=0.2, depth.units="m", ka=TRUE, acc.mean=2000. The output consists of a pdf of the age-depth model and its settings, a file containing the 95% age ranges, medians and means for every 0.1m of the core depths, a settings file and the .csv file that was used to produce the age-depth model. During the age-modelling, rbacon used the IntCal20 northern hemisphere terrestrial calibration curve (Reimer et al. 2020, Radiocarbon 62, 725-757, doi:10.1017/RDC.2020.41).

Date (Creation): 2024-01-17

Identifier: http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13608177

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Queens University Belfast - Dr Maarten Blaauw

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Carbon dating
Age determination methods

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Begin date: 2018-07-01

End date: 2023-06-30

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Date (Publication): 2011

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Date (Publication): 2010-12-08

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Statement: The (uncalibrated) radiocarbon dates and their associated (composite, event-free) depths were input into the Bayesian age-depth modelling software Bacon (Blaauw an Christen 2011 DOI: 10.1214/11-BA618), using the open-source CRAN R package rbacon (https://cran.r-project.org/package=rbacon; version 3.2.0). As calibration curve we used the northern hemisphere terrestrial curve IntCal20 (Reimer et al. 2020, doi:10.1017/RDC.2020.41). All used settings were defaults, except for: section thickness set to 0.2, prior mean accumulation rate 2000, depth units "m", years in kcal BP.