Radiocarbon variability in the western equatorial Pacific inferred from a high-resolution coral record from Nauru Island

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 103, Issue C11, 1998, Pages 24641-24650

  Guilderson, Thomas P ^a,b   Schrag, Daniel P ^a   Kashgarian, Michaele ^b   Southon, John ^b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHOZOA;

CARBON 14; CORAL; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; SURFACE WATER; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

(EQUATORIAL WEST); NAURU; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 0032532897     PISSN: 21699275     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/98JC02271     Document Type: Article

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