Apparent Radiocarbon Ages of recent marine shells from Norway, Spitsbergen, and Arctic Canada

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The mean apparent radiocarbon ages of marine shells, colleted alive before the initiation of atomic bomb testing, and also before the main input of dead carbon derived from fossil fuels, are found to be 440 yr for the coast of Norway, 510 yr for Spitsbergen, and 750 yr for Ellesmere Island, Arctic Canada. The relationship between these apparent ages and the oceanic circulation pattern, is discussed. Also possible variations of the apparent ages back in time are discussed.

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Lamont Radiocarbon Measurements VIII

Edwin A. Olson, Wallace Broecker (1961)

Like Lamont VI (Broecker and Olson, 1959), this list contains only results on samples of known age (most of which formed during the past ten years). The measurements were made largely in order to gain an understanding of the distribution of radiocarbon within the dynamic carbon reservoir. Again, the data are not reported primarily with the idea of drawing new conclusions but rather to bring together in one place information which is presently scattered throughout the literature or which otherwise might remain unpublished.

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Time-Transgressive Deglacial Retreat of Polar Waters from the North Atlantic

W.F. Ruddiman, A. McIntyre (1973)

A 9300 yr-old zone of disseminated volcanic ash in North Atlantic sediments between 45° N and 65° N provides a time-synchronous reference layer against which we have compared the stratigraphic level of deglacial warming of ocean surface waters. In the Atlantic north of 45° N the most prominent feature of this warming is the replacement of low-carbonate glacial marine sediment containing only a single species of polar Foraminifera by calcareous oozes containing a diverse temperate fauna and flora. The local terminations of glacial conditions marked by this change are not synchronous at these latitudes, but range from 13,500 yr B.P. or older in the southeast near Great Britain to 6,500 yr B.P. or younger in the northwest near Greenland. Regionally, these local warmings trace the progressive westward and northward retreat of polar water from the North Atlantic. Since the withdrawal of polar water from the North Atlantic coincides with the northward shrinkage of temperate-latitude continental ice sheets, it is the best oceanic analog to continental deglaciation.