Old radiocarbon ages in the southwest Pacific Ocean during the last glacial period and deglaciation

Nature

Volumn 405, Issue 6786, 2000, Pages 555-559

  Sikes, Elisabeth L ^a,b   Samson, Catherine R ^b,c   Guilderson, Thomas P ^d,e   Howard, William R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b ANTARCTIC CLIMATE AND ECOSYSTEMS COOPERATIVE RESEARCH CENTRE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^d LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^e HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON 14; SURFACE WATER;

LAST DEGLACIATION; LAST GLACIAL; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; RADIOCARBON DATING; VENTING;

ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; BENTHOS; CLIMATE; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; PACIFIC OCEAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEDIMENT;

PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 0034214152     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35014581     Document Type: Article

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