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Reconstruction of Past Co2 Concentration at a Natural Co2 Vent Site Using Radiocarbon Dating of Tree Rings

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2016

Fabio Marzaioli ,
Carmine Lubritto ,
Giovanna Battipaglia ,
Isabella Passariello ,
Mauro Rubino ,
Detlef Rogalla ,
Sandro Strumia ,
Franco Miglietta ,
Antonio D'Onofrio  and
M Francesca Cotrufo
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Fabio Marzaioli*
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Scienze Ambientali, Seconda Università degli Studi di Napoli, Via Vivaldi 43, 81100 Caserta, Italy
Carmine Lubritto
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Scienze Ambientali, Seconda Università degli Studi di Napoli, Via Vivaldi 43, 81100 Caserta, Italy
Giovanna Battipaglia
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Scienze Ambientali, Seconda Università degli Studi di Napoli, Via Vivaldi 43, 81100 Caserta, Italy
Isabella Passariello
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Scienze Ambientali, Seconda Università degli Studi di Napoli, Via Vivaldi 43, 81100 Caserta, Italy
Mauro Rubino
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Scienze Ambientali, Seconda Università degli Studi di Napoli, Via Vivaldi 43, 81100 Caserta, Italy
Detlef Rogalla
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Scienze Ambientali, Seconda Università degli Studi di Napoli, Via Vivaldi 43, 81100 Caserta, Italy Marie Curie Fellowship (contract HPMD-CT-2001-00088)
Sandro Strumia
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Scienze Ambientali, Seconda Università degli Studi di Napoli, Via Vivaldi 43, 81100 Caserta, Italy
Franco Miglietta
Affiliation:
IBIMET Via Caproni 8, 50145 Firenze, Italy
Antonio D'Onofrio
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Scienze Ambientali, Seconda Università degli Studi di Napoli, Via Vivaldi 43, 81100 Caserta, Italy
M Francesca Cotrufo
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Scienze Ambientali, Seconda Università degli Studi di Napoli, Via Vivaldi 43, 81100 Caserta, Italy
Filippo Terrasi
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Scienze Ambientali, Seconda Università degli Studi di Napoli, Via Vivaldi 43, 81100 Caserta, Italy
*
Corresponding author. Email: fabio.marzaioli@unina2.it.
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Total CO2 exposure levels in a naturally enriched site (Lajatico, Italy) were reconstructed using radiocarbon analysis by accelerator mass spectrometry combined with dendrochronological analysis on wood cores extracted from trees grown in the fossil CO2 source proximity. Over 3 decades (1964–1998), the data show a mean CO2 concentration in the atmosphere of 650 ppm, about twice the current concentration in atmosphere, with a maximum around 1980.

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Radiocarbon , Volume 47 , Issue 2 , 2005 , pp. 257 - 263
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Copyright © 2005 by the Arizona Board of Regents on behalf of the University of Arizona 

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