Mysterious abrupt carbon-14 increase in coral contributed by a comet
Ling, MX (Ling, Ming-xing)[ 2 ]; Peng, ZC (Peng, Zi-cheng)[ 1 ]; Zhang, ZF (Zhang, Zhao-feng)[ 2 ]; Liu, Y (Liu, Yi)[ 1 ]; Sun, XC (Sun, Xiao-chun)[ 5 ]; Shen, CD (Shen, Cheng-de)[ 2 ]; Shen, CC (Shen, Chuan-chou)[ 3 ]; Liu, KX (Liu, Ke-xin)[ 6,7 ]; Sun, WD (Sun, Weidong)[ 8 ]; Liu, WG (Liu, Wei-guo)[ 4 ]
刊名SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
2014-01-16
卷号4页码:3728
DOI10.1038/srep03728
文献子类期刊论文
英文摘要

A large and sudden increase in radiocarbon (C-14) around AD773 are documented in coral skeletons from the South China Sea. The C-14 increased by similar to 15 parts per thousand during winter, and remain elevated for more than 4 months, then increased and dropped down within two months, forming a spike of 45 parts per thousand high in late spring, followed by two smaller spikes. The C-14 anomalies coincide with an historic comet collision with the Earth's atmosphere on 17 January AD 773. Comas are known to have percent-levels of nitrogen by weight, and are exposed to cosmic radiation in space. Hence they may be expected to contain highly elevated C-14/C-12 ratios, as compared to the Earth's atmosphere. The significant input of C-14 by comets may have contributed to the fluctuation of C-14 in the atmosphere throughout the Earth's history, which should be considered carefully to better constrain the cosmic ray fluctuation.

语种英语
内容类型期刊论文
源URL[http://ir.ieecas.cn/handle/361006/9754]  
专题地球环境研究所_加速器质谱中心
通讯作者Zhang, ZF (Zhang, Zhao-feng)[ 2 ]; Liu, Y (Liu, Yi)[ 1 ]
作者单位1.State Key Laboratory of NuclearPhysics and Technology & Institute of Heavy Ion Physics, School of Physics, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China;
2.CAS KeyLaboratory of Mineralogy and Metallogeny, Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry, The Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou510640, China
3.State Key Laboratory of Isotope Geochemistry, Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry,The Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510640, China;
4.CAS Key Laboratory of Crust-Mantle Materials and Environments, School of Earth and Space Sciences, University of Science andTechnology of China, Hefei 230026, China;
5.High-Precision Mass Spectrometry and Environment ChangeLaboratory (HISPEC), Department of Geosciences, National Taiwan University, Taipei 10617, Taiwan;
6.State Key Laboratory ofLoess and Quaternary Geology, Institute of Earth Environment, The Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xi’an 710075, China;
7.Institutefor the History of Natural Sciences, The Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China;
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Ling, MX ,Peng, ZC ,Zhang, ZF ,et al. Mysterious abrupt carbon-14 increase in coral contributed by a comet[J]. SCIENTIFIC REPORTS,2014,4:3728.
APA Ling, MX .,Peng, ZC .,Zhang, ZF .,Liu, Y .,Sun, XC .,...&Liu, WG .(2014).Mysterious abrupt carbon-14 increase in coral contributed by a comet.SCIENTIFIC REPORTS,4,3728.
MLA Ling, MX ,et al."Mysterious abrupt carbon-14 increase in coral contributed by a comet".SCIENTIFIC REPORTS 4(2014):3728.
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