Constant Holocene Southern-Ocean 14C reservoir ages and ice-shelf flow rates

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 296, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 115-123

  Hall, Brenda L ^a   Henderson, Gideon M ^b   Baroni, Carlo ^c   Kellogg, Thomas B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MAINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Coral; Marine reservoir effect; McMurdo Ice Shelf; Radiocarbon; Southern Ocean; U Th dating

Indexed keywords

AIR-SEA EXCHANGE; CONSTANT FLOW; DEEP-OCEAN CIRCULATION; DEEPWATER; ENDMEMBERS; GROUNDING LINE; HIGH LATITUDES; HOLOCENES; ICE SHELVES; LONG TERM RECORDS; NEW AGE; OCEAN CIRCULATION; OCEAN MODEL; RADIOCARBON AGE; RESERVOIR EFFECT; ROSS SEA; SOUTHERN OCEAN; SURFACE OCEAN;

ELECTROMIGRATION; OCEANOGRAPHY; RESERVOIRS (WATER); SEAWATER;

ICE;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ALKALINITY; CARBON ISOTOPE; CORAL RECORD; FLOW VELOCITY; GEOCHRONOLOGY; HOLOCENE; ICE FLOW; ICE SHELF; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; PALEOATMOSPHERE; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; RADIOCARBON DATING; URANIUM SERIES DATING;

ANTARCTICA; EAST ANTARCTICA; MCMURDO ICE SHELF; ROSS SEA; SOUTHERN OCEAN;

ANTHOZOA;

EID: 77953809056     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2010.04.054     Document Type: Article

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