Continuous marine radiocarbon reservoir calibration and the 13C Suess effect in the Irish Sea: Results from the first multi-centennial shell-based marine master chronology

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 279, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 230-241

  Butler, Paul G ^a   Scourse, James D ^a   Richardson, Christopher A ^a   Wanamaker Jr , Alan D ^a   Bryant, Charlotte L ^b   Bennell, James D ^a  

^a BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b NATURAL ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Arctica islandica; Irish Sea; marine radiocarbon reservoir effect; North Atlantic Oscillation; sclerochronology; Suess effect

Indexed keywords

ARCTICA ISLANDICA; IRISH SEA; MARINE RADIOCARBON RESERVOIR EFFECT; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; SCLEROCHRONOLOGY; SUESS EFFECT;

ARCTIC ENGINEERING; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; ELECTROMIGRATION; FEEDBACK; SHELLS (STRUCTURES);

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CALIBRATION; CLIMATE FEEDBACK; DENDROCHRONOLOGY; GEOCHRONOLOGY; MARINE ISOTOPE STAGE; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; PALEOCLIMATE; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; RADIOCARBON DATING; TREE RING;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; EURASIA; EUROPE; IRISH SEA; ISLE OF MAN; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

ANTHOZOA; ARCTICA ISLANDICA; BIVALVIA; MOLLUSCA;

EID: 60949104465     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2008.12.043     Document Type: Article

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