Radiocarbon Date List X: Baffin Bay, Baffin Island, Iceland, Labrador Sea, and the Northern North Atlantic

• Main Authors: Andrews, J.T., Briner, J.P., Barber, D.C., Castaneda, I.S., Cooper, T.A., Dunhill, G., Hagen, S., Hald, M., Hall, F.R., James, E., Jennings, A.E., Koc, N., Kristjansdottir, G.B, Principato, Sarah M., Smith, L.M., Vorren, T., Weiner, N., Williams, K.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: The Cupola: Scholarship at Gettysburg College 2004
• Subjects: Marine and Terrestrial Enviroments; Paleoenviromental Functions; Non-Marine Radiocarbon Dates; Marine Sediment Core; Environmental Monitoring; Environmental Sciences; Other Environmental Sciences; Sedimentology; Baffin Bay; Baffin Island; Greenland; Jennings; Baffin; Denmark Strait; East Greenland; glacier; Iceland; Labrador Sea; North Atlantic; Spitzbergen
• Online Access: https://cupola.gettysburg.edu/esfac/7; https://cupola.gettysburg.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1006&context=esfac

Date List X contains an annotated listing of 213 radiocarbon dates determined on samples from marine and terrestrial environments. The marine samples were collected from the East Greenland, Iceland, Spitzbergen, and Norwegian margins, Baffin Bay, and Labrador Sea. The terrestrial samples were collected from Vestfirdir, Iceland and Baffin Island. The samples were submitted by INSTAAR and researchers affiliated with INSTAAR's Micropaleontology Laboratory under the direction of Dr.’s John T. Andrews and Anne E. Jennings. All of the dates from marine sediment cores were determined from either shells or foraminifera (both benthic and planktic). All dates were obtained by the Accelerator Mass Spectrometry (AMS) method. Regions of concentrated marine research include: Baffin Bay, Baffin Island, Labrador Sea, East Greenland fjords, shelf and slope, Denmark Strait, the southwestern and northwestern Iceland shelves, and Vestfirdir, Iceland. The non-marine radiocarbon dates are from peat, wood, plant microfossils, and mollusc. The radiocarbon dates have been used to address a variety of research objectives such as: 1. determining the timing of northern hemisphere high latitude environmental changes including glacier advance and retreat, and 2. assessing the accuracy of a fluctuating reservoir correction. Thus, most of the dates constrain the timing, rate, and interaction of late Quaternary paleoenvironmental fluctuations in sea level, glacier extent, sediment input, and changes in ocean circulation patterns. Where significant, stratigraphic and sample contexts are presented for each core to document the basis for interpretations.