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Radiocarbon—A Direct Calculation of the Period of the Grand Trend

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2016

Israel Carmi
Affiliation:
Department of Isotope Research, The Weizmann Institute of Science, 76100 Rehovot, Israel
Ziv Sirkes
Affiliation:
Department of Isotope Research, The Weizmann Institute of Science, 76100 Rehovot, Israel
Mordeckai Magaritz
Affiliation:
Department of Isotope Research, The Weizmann Institute of Science, 76100 Rehovot, Israel
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A major collective effort was made to develop a data base for establishing the relationship between 14C and calendric ages (Stuiver, 1982). The early “cosmic schwung” fit between the two ages (Suess, 1970a, p 310) and the 10,350 yr period of the grand trend (Suess, 1970b, p 596) have recently been replaced by the period of 12,100 yr (Suess, 1980). The period of the grand trend was estimated by correlating the data with an a priori postulated sine function (Suess, 1970, p 596), or more recently a polynomial fit of the sixth degree was used (Klein et al, 1982). In the detrended data, periods (wiggles) of between 2400 yr and 104 yr were identified by conventional time series analysis. This approach could not be used to estimate the period of the grand trend, because the time series includes less than one cycle, whereas several cycles are required in order to get a meaningful result.

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