Constant Holocene Southern-Ocean 14C reservoir ages and ice-shelf flow rates

• Main Authors: Hall B. L, Henderson G. M, Kellogg T. B., BARONI, CARLO
• Other Authors: Hall, B. L., Henderson, G. M., Baroni, Carlo, Kellogg, T. B.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2010
• Subjects: Marine reservoir effect; Southern Ocean; Radiocarbon; U/Th dating; Coral; McMurdo Ice Shelf; Ross Sea; Antarctica; Antarctic; Antarc*; Ice Shelf; Ice Shelves
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11568/143988

Southern Ocean radiocarbon reservoir ages (i.e. non-zero radiocarbon ages in seawater) are the highest in the world's surface ocean. Constraining these reservoir ages at present and in the past is important not only because unknown reservoir ages limit the interpretation of Antarctic radiocarbo...