Published October 20, 1988
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Journal article
Radiocarbon age of last glacial Pacific deep water
- 1. Cambridge Univ. (UK). Godwin Lab. for Quaternary Research
- 2. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, 91 - Gif-sur-Yvette (France). Centre des Faibles Radioactivites
Description
One of the important projects envisaged ever since the possibility emerged of making tandem accelerator mass-spectrometric radiocarbon determinations has been that of investigating changes in the radiocarbon age of the deep ocean. Working in the glacial section of core TR163-31B with an accumulation of 10 cm kyr-1, we show here that the ventilation age of Pacific deep water was about 500 years greater in last glacial times than it is today. (author)
Additional details
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Nature (London)
- Journal Volume
- 335
- Journal Issue
- 6192
- Series
- Nature (London).
- Journal Page Range
- 708-711
- ISSN
- 0028-0836
- CODEN
- NATUA
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United Kingdom
- Country of Input or Organization
- United Kingdom
- INIS RN
- 20007456
- Subject category
- S37: INORGANIC, ORGANIC, PHYSICAL AND ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY;
- Resource subtype / Literary indicator
- Numerical Data
- Descriptors DEI
- AGE ESTIMATION; AQUATIC ORGANISMS; CARBON 14; DEPTH; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; ISOTOPE DATING; OXYGEN ISOTOPES; PACIFIC OCEAN; VENTILATION
- Descriptors DEC
- BETA DECAY RADIOISOTOPES; BETA-MINUS DECAY RADIOISOTOPES; CARBON ISOTOPES; DATA; DIMENSIONS; EVEN-EVEN NUCLEI; INFORMATION; ISOTOPES; LIGHT NUCLEI; NUCLEI; NUMERICAL DATA; RADIOISOTOPES; SEAS; SURFACE WATERS; YEARS LIVING RADIOISOTOPES