Dating the Anthropocene in deep-sea sediments: how much carbon is buried in the Irminger Basin?

• Published in: Global and Planetary Change
• Main Authors: Fontela, Marcos, Francés, Guillermo, Quintana, Begoña, Álvarez-Fernández, María Jesús, Nombela, Miguel Ángel, Alejo, Irene, Pedrosa, M. C., Pérez, Fiz F.
• Other Authors: Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (España)
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier 2019
• Subjects: Deep-sea sedimentation rate; Subpolar North Atlantic; Irminger Basin; Carbon sink; Geochronology; Anthropocene; North Atlantic
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10261/177615; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloplacha.2019.02.008; https://doi.org/10.13039/501100003329

31 pages, 5 figures. Evaluation of biogeochemical processes in Anthropocene deep-sea sediments require accurate dating techniques. Here we show the results of an approach using high resolution low level background gamma spectrometry with two simultaneous hyper-pure germanium (HPGe) detectors. The qu...