Constraining Circulation Changes Through the Last Deglaciation with Deep-sea Coral Radiocarbon and Sedimentary Pa231/Th230

• Main Author: Burke, Andrea
• Other Authors: WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION MA
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2012
• Subjects: Isotopes; *CORAL; *ISOTOPES; *RADIOCARBON DATING; ANTARCTIC REGIONS; ATMOSPHERES; CARBON; CLIMATE; COMPUTATIONS; CONSISTENCY; CYCLES; DEEP OCEANS; GAS EXCHANGE(BIOLOGY); GLACIERS; ICELAND; INVERSION; LOW TEMPERATURE; MASS; MODELS; NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN; OCEANOGRAPHY; OCEANS; RADIOACTIVE ISOTOPES; RATES; RATIOS; SAMPLING; STRATIFICATION; SURVEYS; URANIUM; Antarctic; Drake Passage; Reykjanes; Southern Ocean; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Iceland; North Atlantic
• Online Access: http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/ADA550599; http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=ADA550599

Radioactive isotopes can be used in paleoceanography both for dating samples and as tracers of ocean processes. Here I use radiocarbon and uranium series isotopes to investigate the ocean's role in climate change over the last deglaciation. I present a new method for rapid radiocarbon analyses...