An Icelandic freshwater radiocarbon reservoir effect: Implications for lacustrine 14 C chronologies

• Published in: The Holocene
• Main Authors: Ascough, P.L., Cook, G.T., Hastie, H., Dunbar, E., Church, M.J., Einarsson, Á., McGovern, T.H., Dugmore, A.J.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: SAGE Publications 2011
• Subjects: Mývatn; Iceland
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0959683611400466; https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0959683611400466; https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full-xml/10.1177/0959683611400466

A freshwater radiocarbon ( 14 C) reservoir effect (FRE) is a 14 C age offset between the atmospheric and freshwater carbon reservoirs. FREs can be on the order of 10 000 14 C yr in extreme examples and are a crucial consideration for 14 C dating of palaeoenvironmental and archaeological samples. Cor...