Chronology of the Palmer Deep site, Antarctic Peninsula: a Holocene palaeoenvironmental reference for the circum-Antarctic

• Published in: The Holocene
• Main Authors: Domack, E., Leventer, A., Dunbar, R., Taylor, F., Brachfeld, S., Sjunneskog, C.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: SAGE Publications 2001
• Subjects: Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Palmer Deep; The Antarctic; Antarc*
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1191/095968301673881493; https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1191/095968301673881493

Palmer Deep sediment cores are used to produce the first high-resolution, continuous late Pleistocene to Holocene time-series from the Antarctic marine system. The sedimentary record is dated using accelerator mass spectrometer radiocarbon methods on acid insoluble organic matter and foraminiferal c...