Radiocarbon dates of peatland initiation across the northern high latitudes

Dataset

DOI

A compilation of basal dates of peatland initiation across the northern high latitudes, associated metadata including location, age, raw and calibrated radiocarbon ages, and associated references.Includes previously published datasets from sources below as well as 365 new data points.

Supplement to: Treat, Claire C; Jones, Miriam C; Brosius, Laura Susan; Grosse, Guido; Walter Anthony, Katey M (in prep.): High latitude lake and wetland methane emissions lag abrupt early Holocene increases in atmospheric methane.

Identifier
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.864101
Related Identifier	References https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0911387107
Related Identifier	References https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2009.12.010
Related Identifier	References https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1131722
Related Identifier	References https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms5078
Metadata Access	https://ws.pangaea.de/oai/provider?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=datacite4&identifier=oai:pangaea.de:doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.864101

Provenance
Creator	Treat, Claire C ; Jones, Miriam C ; Brosius, Laura Susan; Grosse, Guido ; Walter Anthony, Katey M
Publisher	PANGAEA
Publication Year	2016
Rights	Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
OpenAccess	true

Representation
Resource Type	Supplementary Dataset; Dataset
Format	text/tab-separated-values
Size	50631 data points
Discipline	Earth System Research
Spatial Coverage	(-1.081W, 32.711S, 4.000E, 82.283N); Gulf of St. Lawrence; Barents Sea; Arctic Ocean; Norwegian Sea; Abisko, Lappland, northern Sweden; Adventdalen, Spitzbergen, Svalbard; Gulf of Alaska; Baltic Sea; Baffin Bay; East Siberian Sea; Coastal waters of SE Alaska; Alaska, USA; Hudson Bay; North Atlantic Ocean; Anadyrskiy Gulf; White Sea; Northwestern Passages; Bering Sea; Gulf of Bothnia; Hudson Strait; Kara Sea; Laptev Sea; Barrow, Alaska, USA; Gulf of Finland; Bay of Fundy; North Sea; Beaufort Sea; North Pacific Ocean; Russia; Labrador Sea; Davis Strait; Japan Sea; Chistic, Russia; Canada; Derput, Russia; Kolyma Lowland, NE Siberia; Gulf of Riga; Chukchi Sea; Scotland Sea; Grand River, Michigan, U.S.A., North America; Skagerrak; Manitoba, Canada; Hudson Bay Lowlands, Canada; North Greenland Sea; Iceland Sea; Imatu Mire, Estonia; Kalsa Mire, Estonia; Kittilä, Finland; Finland; Canadian Arctic; Samoylov Island, Lena Delta, Siberia; Sea of Okhotsk; Queen Elizabeth Islands, Canada NWT; Mustusuo, Russia; Tanana, Alaska, U.S.A., North America; Nigula, Estonia; Porcupine, Canada, North America; Peace, Canada, North America; United States of America; Preluca Tiganului, Romania; Western Siberia; Usa River basin, Northeast European Russia; Rugozero, Russia; Banks Island, Canadian Arctic Archipelago; St. Marys, Canada, North America; Gulf of Tartary; Siikasuo, Finland; Sweden; Suollakh, Russia; Sverdrup, Russia; Varanger Peninsula, northeast Norway; Vôhma Mire, Estonia; Alberta, Canada
Temporal Coverage Begin	1948-04-01T00:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End	2010-08-15T00:00:00Z