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Re-evaluating 14C dating accuracy in deep-sea sediment archives
Bryan C. Lougheed
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Department of Earth Sciences, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
Philippa Ascough
Scottish Universities Environmental Research Centre, Glasgow, Scotland,
UK
Andrew M. Dolman
Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research,
Potsdam, Germany
Ludvig Löwemark
Department of Geosciences, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
Brett Metcalfe
Department of Earth Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the
Netherlands
LSCE-IPSL, CEA-CNRS-UVSQ, Université Paris-Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette,
France
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Short summary
The current geochronological state of the art for applying the radiocarbon (14C) method to deep-sea sediment archives lacks key information on sediment bioturbation, which could affect palaeoclimate interpretations made from deep-sea sediment. We use a computer model that simulates the 14C activity and bioturbation history of millions of single foraminifera at the sea floor, allowing us to evaluate the current state of the art at the most fundamental level.
The current geochronological state of the art for applying the radiocarbon (14C) method to...
