Correction to “The ‘LSVEC problem’ for the Vienna Peedee belemnite carbon isotope-delta scale”

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Dunn, PJH, Camin, F. The ‘LSVE problem’ for the Vienna Peedee belemnite carbon isotope-delta scale. Rapid Commun Mass Spectrom. 2024; 38(17):e9841. https://doi.org/10.1002/rcm.9841.

The authors have been made aware of some errors in referencing as well as inclusion of data considered unpublished within Figure 3 of the article entitled “The “LSVEC problem” for the Vienna Peedee belemnite carbon isotope-delta scale” (RCM 28 e9841) [1]. These errors include the following:

Firstly, the data series named “Assonov et al (2015)” within Figure 3 should not have been included as it is considered unpublished data. This error does not alter the discussion surrounding the assigned isotope delta value of LSVEC within the text linked to the figure. A correct version of the Figure with caption is given here (reference numbering as per the original article):

The third paragraph of Section 5.4 of the paper (entitled “Proposal 2 – maintain only the VPDB scale and remove LSVEC entirely”) also has incorrect citations in the final parenthesis. This should read “(see e.g. Table 9 of Qi et al [18] and Hélie et al [19],).” These errors were inadvertently introduced during typesetting and unfortunately not corrected during proofing.

The authors wish to thank Sergey Assonov for bringing most of these errors to their attention and apologise for any inconvenience caused.

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