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

• 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; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.4319%2Flo.1965.10.suppl2.r25; https://aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.4319/lo.1965.10.suppl2.r25

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.