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Reservoir Ages in Eastern Pacific Coastal and Estuarine Waters

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2016

B. Lynn Ingram
Affiliation:
Department of Geography, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720 USA
John R. Southon
Affiliation:
Center for Accelerator Mass Spectrometry, L-397, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Livermore, California 94551 USA
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Abstract

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We have refined marine reservoir age estimates for eastern Pacific coastal waters with radiocarbon measurements of mollusk shells collected prior to 1950. We have also investigated interspecific variability in 14C ages for historic and ancient shells from San Francisco Bay.

Type
14C Cycling and the Oceans
Copyright
Copyright © the Arizona Board of Regents on behalf of the University of Arizona 

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