An Icelandic freshwater radiocarbon reservoir effect: implications for lacustrine 14 C chronologies

• Published in: The Holocene
• Main Authors: Ascough, P., Cook, G., Hastie, Helen, Dunbar, E., Church, M.J., Einarsson, A., McGovern, T.H., Dugmore, A.J.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Sage Publications Ltd. 2011
• Subjects: GE Environmental Sciences; Mývatn; Iceland
• Online Access: http://eprints.gla.ac.uk/49644/; http://eprints.gla.ac.uk/49644/1/49644.pdf

A freshwater radiocarbon ( 14 C) reservoir effect (FRE) is a 14 C age offset between the atmospheric and freshwater carbon reservoirs. FREs can be on the order of 10 000 14 C yr in extreme examples and are a crucial consideration for 14 C dating of palaeoenvironmental and archaeological samples. Cor...