Revised ΔR values for the Barents Sea and its archipelagos as a pre-requisite for accurate and robust marine-based 14C chronologies

• Published in: Quaternary Geochronology
• Main Authors: Pienkowski, Anna, Husum, Katrine, Furze, Mark, Missana, Amandine F.J., Irvali, Nil, Divine, Dmitry V., Eilertsen, Vårin Trælvik
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier 2022
• Subjects: Barents Sea; Bjørnøya; Franz Josef Land; Norway; Svalbard; Northern Norway; Novaya Zemlya; toothed whales
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10037/26476; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quageo.2021.101244

The calibration of marine 14C dates requires the incorporation of regionally specific marine reservoir offsets known as ΔR, essential for accurate and meaningful inter-archive comparisons. Revised, regional ΔR (‘ΔRR’) values for the Barents Sea are presented for molluscs and cetaceans for the two la...