Publication Date:
2024-01-09
Description:
A series of 14C measurements in Ocean Drilling Program cores from the tropical Cariaco Basin, which have been correlated to the annual-layer counted chronology for the Greenland Ice Sheet Project 2 (GISP2) ice core, provides a high-resolution calibration of the radiocarbon time scale back to 50,000 years before the present. Independent radiometric dating of events correlated to GISP2 suggests that the calibration is accurate. Reconstructed 14C activities varied substantially during the last glacial period, including sharp peaks synchronous with the Laschamp and Mono Lake geomagnetic field intensity minimal and cosmogenic nuclide peaks in ice cores and marine sediments. Simulations with a geochemical box model suggest that much of the variability can be explained by geomagnetically modulated changes in 14C production rate together with plausible changes in deep-ocean ventilation and the global carbon cycle during glaciation.
Keywords:
165-1002; Age, 14C AMS; Age, 14C milieu/reservoir corrected; Age, dated; Age, dated material; Age, dated standard deviation; Calendar age; Calendar age, standard deviation; Cayman Rise, Caribbean Sea; Comment; COMPCORE; Composite Core; DEPTH, sediment/rock; Joides Resolution; Leg165; Ocean Drilling Program; ODP; Sample code/label; Δ14C; Δ14C, standard deviation
Type:
Dataset
Format:
text/tab-separated-values, 3013 data points
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