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Seasonal Variations in Peruvian Marine Reservoir Age from Pre-Bomb Argopecten Purpuratus Shell Carbonate

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2016

Kevin B Jones ,
Gregory W L Hodgins ,
David L Dettman ,
C Fred T Andrus ,
April Nelson  and
Miguel F Etayo-Cadavid
Kevin B Jones
Affiliation:
Department of Geosciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721, USA
Gregory W L Hodgins*
Affiliation:
NSF-Arizona AMS Facility, Department of Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721, USA
David L Dettman
Affiliation:
Department of Geosciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721, USA
C Fred T Andrus
Affiliation:
Department of Geological Sciences, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama 35487, USA
April Nelson
Affiliation:
Department of Chemistry, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721, USA
Miguel F Etayo-Cadavid
Affiliation:
Department of Geological Sciences, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama 35487, USA
*
Corresponding author. Email: [email protected]
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Marine upwelling along coastal Peru can be intense and variable, making radiocarbon dating marine and coastal systems complex. Historical and proxy records of upwelling along coastal Peru are few, and long-lived species such as corals do not grow in the cold coastal waters. Mollusk shell carbonate, however, can record both the magnitude of the local marine reservoir correction, ΔR, and of seasonal oscillations in the ventilation age of coastal waters. If large, these seasonal oscillations would complicate radiocarbon dating of marine organisms. To examine this possibility, we sampled for δ13C, δ18O, and 14C content a set of pre-bomb Argopecten purpuratus shells collected from coastal Peru during 1908 and 1926. Intrashell variations of up to 216 14C yr were noted, but these were not consistently correlated with seasonal changes in δ18O or δ13C. Only an 11 yr difference was observed in the weighted average ΔR of Callao Bay shells collected during normal (1908) and El Niño (1926) years. Despite the intrashell 14C variation noted, weighted average ΔR values from all 3 sample sites and from normal and El Niño years all overlap at 1 σ. We report ΔR values of 183 ± 18 and 194 ± 23 yr from Callao Bay (12°4′S), 165 ± 24 yr from Salaverry (8°14′S), and 189 ± 23 yr from Sechura Bay (5°45′S).

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Radiocarbon , Volume 49 , Issue 2 , 2007 , pp. 877 - 888
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Copyright © 2007 by the Arizona Board of Regents on behalf of the University of Arizona 

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