Radiocarbon dating on four sediment profiles from Bunger Hills, East Antarctica

Radiocarbon dating was carried out on the total organic carbon of 19 lacustrine and marine sediment samples from the Bunger Hills. The results indicate that radiocarbon contamination is negligible throughout two sediment sequences from a fresh water lake. In contrast, two sequences from marine basin...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Melles, Martin, Verkulich, Sergey R, Hermichen, Wolf-Dieter
Format: Dataset
Language:English
Published: PANGAEA 1994
Subjects:
AWI_PerDyn
bh6019
bh6045
bh6069
bh6082
Bunger Hills
East Antarctica
GC
Gravity corer
Permafrost Research (Periglacial Dynamics) @ AWI
SAE36
Sampling/drilling in lake
Soviet Antarctic Expedition 36
Antarctic
The Antarctic
Antarc*
Antarctic Science
Antarctica
permafrost
Polarforschung
Online Access:https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.707132
https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.707132
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Summary:Radiocarbon dating was carried out on the total organic carbon of 19 lacustrine and marine sediment samples from the Bunger Hills. The results indicate that radiocarbon contamination is negligible throughout two sediment sequences from a fresh water lake. In contrast, two sequences from marine basins are irregularly influenced by the Antarctic Marine Reservoir Effect, which today amounts to more than 1000 years, depending on the degree of dilution with meltwater. All sediments were deposited during Holocene time.

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