RADIOCARBON IN THE PACIFIC AND INDIAN OCEANS AND ITS RELATION TO DEEP WATER MOVEMENTS1

Since 1948, carbon‐14 measurements on the bicarbonate of ocean water samples from the Pacific and Indian oceans have been carried out at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, California. Previous reports of the results of these investigations have been confirmed and amended by many rece...

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Published in:Limnology and Oceanography
Main Authors: Bien, G. S., Rakestraw, N. W., Suess, H. E.
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Wiley 1965
Subjects:
Indian
Pacific
Scripps
Weddell
Weddell Sea
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.4319/lo.1965.10.suppl2.r25
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Summary:Since 1948, carbon‐14 measurements on the bicarbonate of ocean water samples from the Pacific and Indian oceans have been carried out at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, California. Previous reports of the results of these investigations have been confirmed and amended by many recent measurements. The method of extracting CO 2 from ocean water has been modified and perfected over the past years. The most notable results of the measurements concern the 14 C content of deep ocean water which can be interpreted unambiguously by considering the aging of the water during the time of movement from the Weddell Sea eastward and then northward into the North Pacific Ocean.

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