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ArticleScientific reports2018

Global Peak in Atmospheric Radiocarbon Provides a Potential Definition for the Onset of the Anthropocene Epoch in 1965.

Chris S M Turney, Jonathan Palmer, Mark A Maslin, Alan Hogg, Christopher J Fogwill, John Southon, Pavla Fenwick, Gerhard Helle, Janet M Wilmshurst, Matt McGlone and 7 more

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Article in Scientific reports, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

17 authors.

Chris S M TurneyPalaeontology, Geobiology and Earth Archives Research Centre, School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia. c.turney@unsw.edu.au.ORCID 0000-0001-6733-0993
Jonathan PalmerPalaeontology, Geobiology and Earth Archives Research Centre, School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia.ORCID 0000-0002-6665-4483
Mark A MaslinDepartment of Geography, University College London, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT, UK.ORCID 0000-0001-9957-3463
Alan HoggWaikato Radiocarbon Laboratory, University of Waikato, Private Bag, 3105, Hamilton, New Zealand.
Christopher J FogwillPalaeontology, Geobiology and Earth Archives Research Centre, School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia.ORCID 0000-0002-6471-1106
John SouthonDepartment of Earth System Science, University of California, Irvine, CA, 92697-3100, USA.
Pavla FenwickGondwana Tree-Ring Laboratory, P.O. Box 14, Little River, Canterbury, 7546, New Zealand.
Gerhard HelleGFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Section 5.2, Telegrafenberg, 14473, Potsdam, Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-9988-6638
Janet M WilmshurstLong Term Ecology Laboratory, Landcare Research, PO Box 69040, Lincoln, 7640, New Zealand.
Matt McGloneLong Term Ecology Laboratory, Landcare Research, PO Box 69040, Lincoln, 7640, New Zealand.
Christopher Bronk RamseyResearch Laboratory for Archaeology and the History of Art, University of Oxford, Dyson Perrins Building, South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3QY, UK.
Zoë ThomasPalaeontology, Geobiology and Earth Archives Research Centre, School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia.ORCID 0000-0002-2323-4366
Mathew LipsonClimate Change Research Centre, School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia.ORCID 0000-0001-5322-1796
Brent BeavenConservation House, PO Box 10420, Wellington, 6143, New Zealand.
Richard T JonesDepartment of Geography, University of Exeter, Devon, EX4 4RJ, UK.
Oliver AndrewsTyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, NR4 7TJ, UK.
Quan HuaAustralian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO), Locked Bag 2001, Kirrawee DC, NSW 2232, Australia.ORCID 0000-0003-0179-8539

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Anthropogenic activity is now recognised as having profoundly and permanently altered the Earth system, suggesting we have entered a human-dominated geological epoch, the 'Anthropocene'. To formally define the onset of the Anthropocene, a synchronous global signature within geological-forming materials is required. Here we report a series of precisely-dated tree-ring records from Campbell Island (Southern Ocean) that capture peak atmospheric radiocarbon (

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