Marine reservoir age variability over the last deglaciation: implications for marine carbon cycling and prospects for regional radiocarbon calibrations ...
Marine radiocarbon dates, corrected for ocean-atmosphere reservoir age offsets (R-ages) are widely used to constrain marine chronologies. R-ages also represent the surface boundary condition that links the ocean interior radiocarbon distribution (i.e. ‘radiocarbon ventilation ages’) to the ocean’s l...
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| Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
| Language: | English |
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Wiley
2019
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| Online Access: | https://dx.doi.org/10.17863/cam.46937 https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/299863 |
| Summary: | Marine radiocarbon dates, corrected for ocean-atmosphere reservoir age offsets (R-ages) are widely used to constrain marine chronologies. R-ages also represent the surface boundary condition that links the ocean interior radiocarbon distribution (i.e. ‘radiocarbon ventilation ages’) to the ocean’s large-scale overturning circulation. Understanding how R-ages have varied over time is therefore essential both for accurate dating and for investigations into past ocean circulation/carbon cycle interactions. A number or recent studies have shed light on surface reservoir age changes over the last deglaciation; however a clear picture of global/regional spatiotemporal patterns of variability has yet to emerge. Here we combine new and existing reservoir age estimates to show coherent but distinct regional reservoir age trends in the sub-polar North Atlantic and Southern Ocean. It can be further shown that similar, but lower amplitude changes occurred at mid-latitudes in each hemisphere. An apparent link between ... |
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