Verification of the Annual Dating of the 10th Century Baitoushan Volcano Eruption Based on an AD 774–775 Radiocarbon Spike

Hakozaki, Masataka; Miyake, Fusa; Nakamura, Toshio; Kimura, Katsuhiko; Masuda, Kimiaki; Okuno, Mitsuru

doi:10.1017/rdc.2017.75

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Verification of the Annual Dating of the 10th Century Baitoushan Volcano Eruption Based on an AD 774–775 Radiocarbon Spike

Published in Radiocarbon • Aug 29, 2017

Authors:

Masataka Hakozaki

Fusa Miyake

Toshio Nakamura

Abstract

Abstract The so-called Millennium Eruption of Baitoushan Volcano is one of the largest of the Common Era but its date has been uncertain. Recently, Oppenheimer et al. (2017) reported the eruptive year as late AD 946 using a new method called carbon-14 spike matching. However, it is necessary to veri...

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Radiocarbon dating

Dendrochronology

Volcano

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