Calibration of the North American Varve Chronology (NAVC)
Given below are a text file and Excel spreadsheet showing the calibrated ages of varves in the NAVC (AM varve years). Listed are every ten years from AM 2500 - 8500. This calibration is based on a best-fit of the IntCal09 data set (Reimer and others, 2009) to the NAVC radiocarbon data set as explained at: [LINK � NAVC-5 NAVC calibration] In equation form the NAVC calibration is: (Calibrated age) = 20,770 cal yr � (AM yr) where the offset of NAVC (AM yr) and calibrated yr (before 1950 AD) is 20,770 cal yr BP.
Text file version: NAVCvsINTCAL09.txt
Excel version: NAVCvsINTCAL09.xls
Reference
- Reimer, P.J., Baillie, M.G.L., Bard, E., Bayliss, A., Beck, J.W., Blackwell, P.G., Ramsey, C.B., Buck, C.E., Burr, G.S., Edwards, R.L., Friedrich, M., Grootes, P.M., Guilderson, T.P., Hajdas, I., Heaton, T.J., Hogg, A.G., Hughen, K.A., Kaiser, K.F., Kromer, B., McCormac, F.G., Manning, S.W., Reimer, R.W., Richards, D.A., Southon, J.R., Talamo, S., Turney, C.S.M., van der Plicht, J., and Weyhenmeyer, C.E., 2009, IntCal09 Northern Hemisphere atmospheric radiocarbon calibration curve: Radiocarbon, v. 51, p. 1111-1150.
The IntCal09 data set is available at: http://calib.qub.ac.uk/calib/
