Development and Application of the Mollusc Arctica Islandica as a Paleoceanographic Tool for the North Atlantic Ocean.

• Main Author: Weidman, Christopher R.
• Other Authors: MASSACHUSETTS INST OF TECH CAMBRIDGE
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1995
• Subjects: Ecology; Inorganic Chemistry; Physical and Dynamic Oceanography; Structural Engineering and Building Technology; *OCEAN SURFACE; *SHELLS(STRUCTURAL FORMS); *CONTINENTAL SHELVES; *SEA WATER; *OCEANOGRAPHY; *CARBONATES; *PALEOCLIMATOLOGY; CONTROL; ANOMALIES; SOURCES; TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; TIME; CORRELATION; SEASONAL VARIATIONS; HISTORY; ISOTOPES; MARINE BIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; CLIMATOLOGY; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; HIGH LATITUDES; STRATIFICATION; NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN; DEEP WATER; BOTTOM; ISOTOPE EFFECT; CORAL; RADIOCARBON DATING; ARCTICA ISLANDICA; BOREAL MOLLUSE; BIVALVIA; RADIOCARBON; Nantucket; Arctica islandica; North Atlantic
• Online Access: http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/ADA307935; http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=ADA307935

The 14C and 180 composition of the annually banded, carbonate shell of the long-lived (+100 years) mollusc Arctica islandica are shown to be practical for reconstructing long term, high-resolution, DIC 14C and bottom temperature time histories for the continental shelves of the northern North Atlant...