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ISODATE – Software for stable isotope dendrochronology

Darren Davies, Neil Loader Orcid Logo, Danny McCarroll, Dan Miles, Christopher Bronk Ramsey

Dendrochronologia, Volume: 93, Start page: 126385

Swansea University Authors: Darren Davies, Neil Loader Orcid Logo, Danny McCarroll

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Abstract

ISODATE is a complete dating package for stable oxygen isotope dendrochronology that offers a user-friendly workspace for processing, crossmatching and precisely dating stable isotope chronologies. ISODATE provides the first standardisation of approach for isotope laboratories and the heritage secto...

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Published in: Dendrochronologia
ISSN: 1125-7865 1612-0051
Published: Elsevier BV 2025
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URI: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa69932
Abstract: ISODATE is a complete dating package for stable oxygen isotope dendrochronology that offers a user-friendly workspace for processing, crossmatching and precisely dating stable isotope chronologies. ISODATE provides the first standardisation of approach for isotope laboratories and the heritage sector for dating and the reporting of dates. The software produces downloadable figures and CSV files containing series alignments and statistical results. The application is freely and publicly available online (isodate.swansea.ac.uk). A manual and guided example accompanies the software. It is hoped that community-led refinements and additional reference chronologies will be added to ISODATE as the technique develops and is adopted more widely.
Keywords: Oxygen Isotope; Dendrochronology; Stable Isotope Dating; Tree-ring; Software; Isotope Dendrochronology
College: Faculty of Science and Engineering
Funders: This work was supported by a UKRI Frontiers grant EP/X025098/1, with additional support from AH/X00354X/1, EP/X525637/1, SSHRC (Canada) 895-2019-1015 and the Marsden Fund (Aotearoa New Zealand) UOA22-015.
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