Late Holocene radiocarbon variability in Northwest Atlantic slope waters

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 275, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 146-153

  Sherwood, Owen A ^a   Edinger, Evan N ^a   Guilderson, Thomas P ^b,c   Ghaleb, Bassam ^d   Risk, Michael J ^e   Scott, David B ^f  

^a MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

^b LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^e MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^f DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

bomb 14C; deep sea corals; Northwest Atlantic; radiocarbon; vertical gradient

Indexed keywords

BOMB-14C; DEEP-SEA CORALS; NORTHWEST ATLANTIC; RADIOCARBON; VERTICAL GRADIENT;

BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; CARBONATE MINERALS; DISSOLUTION; ORGANIC CARBON; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; SEAWATER;

CALCITE;

CALCITE; CORAL RECORD; HOLOCENE; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; RADIOACTIVITY; SEAWATER;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTHWEST);

ANTHOZOA; GORGONIA;

EID: 53449087990     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2008.08.019     Document Type: Article

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