A late Holocene subfossil Atlantic white cedar tree-ring chronology from the northeastern United States

Pearl, Jessie K.; Anchukaitis, Kevin J.; Donnelly, Jeffrey P.; Pearson, Charlotte; Pederson, Neil; Gaylord, Mary C. Lardie; McNichol, Ann P.; Cook, Edward R.; Zimmermann, George L.

doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2019.106104

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“…Usually good precision is the aim (unless the method is employed simply as a range-finder for dendrochronology: e.g. Pearl et al 2020). However, valuable information can still be extracted from short sequences (e.g.…”

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Resolving Time Among Non-Stratified Short-Duration Contexts on a Radiocarbon Plateau: Possibilities and Challenges From the Ad 1480–1630 Example and Northeastern North America

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Reversals and plateaus in the radiocarbon (14C) calibration curve lead to similar 14C ages applying to a wide range of calendar dates, creating imprecision, ambiguity, and challenges for archaeological dating. Even with Bayesian chronological modeling, such periods remain a problem when no known order—e.g., a stratigraphic sequence—exists, and especially if site durations are relatively short. Using the reversal/plateau AD 1480–1630 and the archaeology of northeastern North America as our example, we consider possible strategies to improve chronological resolution across such reversal/plateau periods in the absence of stratigraphic sequences, including uses of wood-charcoal TPQs from even very short wiggle-matches, and site phase duration constraints based on ethnohistoric and archaeological evidence.

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Resolving Time Among Non-Stratified Short-Duration Contexts on a Radiocarbon Plateau: Possibilities and Challenges From the Ad 1480–1630 Example and Northeastern North America

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“…Dendrochronology offers sub-annual temporal resolution of land-level changes, and while such resolution still cannot discriminate between serial partial-margin ruptures separated by days or months from single full-margin earthquakes, confidence in the interpretation could improve significantly. Modern dendrochronology methods utilize changes in wood chemistry that may accompany sudden coseismic subsidence (Pearl et al, 2020a) and known spikes in the radiocarbon record as chronologic tie points (Pearl et al, 2020b, Pearson et al, 2020. Dendrochronology could also assist with dating landslide-dammed lakes (Struble et al, 2020).…”

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Toward an Integrative Geological and Geophysical View of Cascadia Subduction Zone Earthquakes

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Staisch

Dura

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Annu. Rev. Earth Planet. Sci.

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The Cascadia subduction zone (CSZ) is an exceptional geologic environment for recording evidence of land-level changes, tsunamis, and ground motion that reveals at least 19 great megathrust earthquakes over the past 10 kyr. Such earthquakes are among the most impactful natural hazards on Earth, transcend national boundaries, and can have global impact. Reducing the societal impacts of future events in the US Pacific Northwest and coastal British Columbia, Canada, requires improved scientific understanding of megathrust earthquake rupture, recurrence, and corresponding hazards. Despite substantial knowledge gained from decades of research, large uncertainties remain about the characteristics and frequencies of past CSZ earthquakes. In this review, we summarize geological, geophysical, and instrumental evidence relevant to understanding megathrust earthquakes along the CSZ and associated uncertainties. We discuss how the evidence constrains various models of great megathrust earthquake recurrence in Cascadia and identify potential paths forward for the earthquake science community. ▪ Despite outstanding geologic records of past megathrust events, large uncertainty of the magnitude and frequency of CSZ earthquakes remains. ▪ This review outlines current knowledge and promising future directions to address outstanding questions on CSZ rupture characteristics and recurrence. ▪ Integration of diverse data sets with attention to the geologic processes that create different records has potential to lead to major progress. Expected final online publication date for the Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Volume 49 is May 2021. Please see http://www.annualreviews.org/page/journal/pubdates for revised estimates.

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“…Similarly, anchoring a tree-ring sequence on the 774-775 CE event allowed Oppenheimer et al (2017) and Hakozaki et al (2018) to date the volcanic eruption of Changbaishan, on the China-North Korea border, to late 946 CE. It also allowed Pearl et al (2020) to establish and secure a paleoenvironmentally significant 2500-year-long Atlantic white cedar (Chamaecyparis thyoides) chronology from the Northeastern United States. The revolutionary potential of this approach in archaeological contexts has been well emphasized by Dee and Pope (2016) and has been demonstrated to dramatic effect when Kuitems et al (2020) used the event to resolve the origins of the Uyghur monument of Por-Bajin in Russia, dating construction to the summer of 777 CE and resolving decades of debate.…”

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Dendrochronology and Radiocarbon Dating

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Leavitt²,

Kromer

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Both dendrochronology and radiocarbon (14C) dating have their roots back in the early to mid-1900s. Although they were independently developed, they began to intertwine in the 1950s when the founder of dendrochronology, A. E. Douglass, provided dated wood samples for Willard Libby to test his emerging 14C methods. Since this early connection, absolutely dated tree-rings have been key to calibration of the Holocene portion of the 14C timescale. In turn, 14C dating of non-calendar-dated tree-rings has served to place those samples more precisely in time, advance development of long tree-ring chronologies, and bring higher resolution to earlier portions of the 14C calibration curve. Together these methods continue to shape and improve chronological frameworks across the globe, answering questions in archaeology, history, paleoclimatology, geochronology, and ocean, atmosphere, and solar sciences.

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A late Holocene subfossil Atlantic white cedar tree-ring chronology from the northeastern United States

Cited by 14 publications

References 88 publications

Resolving Time Among Non-Stratified Short-Duration Contexts on a Radiocarbon Plateau: Possibilities and Challenges From the Ad 1480–1630 Example and Northeastern North America

Resolving Time Among Non-Stratified Short-Duration Contexts on a Radiocarbon Plateau: Possibilities and Challenges From the Ad 1480–1630 Example and Northeastern North America

Toward an Integrative Geological and Geophysical View of Cascadia Subduction Zone Earthquakes

Dendrochronology and Radiocarbon Dating

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