rbacon - Age-Depth Modelling using Bayesian Statistics

An approach to age-depth modelling that uses Bayesian statistics to reconstruct accumulation histories for deposits, through combining radiocarbon and other dates with prior information on accumulation rates and their variability. See Blaauw & Christen (2011).

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rice - Radiocarbon Equations

Provides functions for the calibration of radiocarbon dates, as well as options to calculate different radiocarbon-related timescales (cal BP, cal BC/AD, C14 age, F14C, pMC, D14C) and estimating the effects of contamination or local reservoir offsets (Reimer and Reimer 2001 <doi:10.1017/S0033822200038339>). Supporting publication: Blaauw, M., Reimer, P.J., in press. An open-source toolkit for radiocarbon dating and calibration. Radiocarbon. The methods follow long-established recommendations such as Stuiver and Polach (1977) <doi:10.1017/S0033822200003672> and Reimer et al. (2004) <doi:10.1017/S0033822200033154>. This package uses the calibration curves from the data package 'rintcal'.

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rintcal - Radiocarbon Calibration Curves

The IntCal20 radiocarbon calibration curves (Reimer et al. 2020 <doi:10.1017/RDC.2020.68>) are provided as a data package, together with previous IntCal curves (IntCal13, IntCal09, IntCal04, IntCal98), other curves (e.g., NOTCal04 [van der Plicht et al. 2004], Arnold & Libby 1951, Stuiver & Suess 1966, Pearson & Stuiver 1986) and postbomb curves. Also provided are functions to copy the curves into memory, and to read, query and plot the data underlying the IntCal20 curves.

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coffee - Chronological Ordering for Fossils and Environmental Events

While individual calibrated radiocarbon dates can span several centuries, combining multiple dates together with any chronological constraints can make a chronology much more robust and precise. This package uses Bayesian methods to enforce the chronological ordering of radiocarbon and other dates, for example for trees with multiple radiocarbon dates spaced at exactly known intervals (e.g., 10 annual rings). For methods see Christen 2003 <doi:10.11141/ia.13.2>. Another example is sites where the relative chronological position of the dates is taken into account - the ages of dates further down a site must be older than those of dates further up (Buck, Kenworthy, Litton and Smith 1991 <doi:10.1017/S0003598X00080534>; Nicholls and Jones 2001 <doi:10.1111/1467-9876.00250>). The paper accompanying this R package is Blaauw et al. 2024 <doi:10.1017/RDC.2024.56>.

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clam - Classical Age-Depth Modelling of Cores from Deposits

Performs 'classical' age-depth modelling of dated sediment deposits - prior to applying more sophisticated techniques such as Bayesian age-depth modelling. Any radiocarbon dated depths are calibrated. Age-depth models are constructed by sampling repeatedly from the dated levels, each time drawing age-depth curves. Model types include linear interpolation, linear or polynomial regression, and a range of splines. See Blaauw (2010) <doi:10.1016/j.quageo.2010.01.002>.

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rplum - Bayesian Age-Depth Modelling of Cores Dated by Pb-210

An approach to age-depth modelling that uses Bayesian statistics to reconstruct accumulation histories for 210Pb-dated deposits using prior information. It can combine 210Pb, radiocarbon, and other dates in the chronologies. See Aquino et al. (2018) <doi:10.1007/s13253-018-0328-7>. Note that parts of the code underlying 'rplum' are derived from the 'rbacon' package by the same authors, and there remains a degree of overlap between the two packages.

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IntCal - Radiocarbon Calibration Curves

The IntCal20 radiocarbon calibration curves (Reimer et al. 2020 <doi:10.1017/RDC.2020.68>) are provided here in a single data package, together with previous IntCal curves (IntCal13, IntCal09, IntCal04, IntCal98) and postbomb curves. Also provided are functions to copy the curves into memory, and to plot the curves and their underlying data, as well as functions to calibrate radiocarbon dates.

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