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Marine reservoir ages for coastal West Africa
Ifremer, Univ Brest, CNRS, Geo-Ocean UMR6538, 29280, Plouzané,
France
Philippe Maestrati
Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, DGD-Collections, France
Serge Gofas
Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, DGD-Collections, France
Departamento de Biología Animal, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de
Málaga, Málaga, Spain
Germain Bayon
Ifremer, Univ Brest, CNRS, Geo-Ocean UMR6538, 29280, Plouzané,
France
Fabien Dewilde
Ifremer, Univ Brest, CNRS, Geo-Ocean UMR6538, 29280, Plouzané,
France
Maylis Labonne
MARBEC, Univ Montpellier, CNRS, Ifremer, IRD, Montpellier, France
Bernard Dennielou
Ifremer, Univ Brest, CNRS, Geo-Ocean UMR6538, 29280, Plouzané,
France
Franck Ferraton
MARBEC, Univ Montpellier, CNRS, Ifremer, IRD, Montpellier, France
Giuseppe Siani
GEOPS, UMR 8148 Université Paris-Saclay, Orsay, France
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Short summary
The marine reservoir age (MRA) is the difference between the 14C age of the ocean and that of the atmosphere at a given time. In geochronology, knowing the local MRA is important to derive accurate calibrated ages for 14C-dated marine material. However, MRA values for coastal West Africa are scarce. From the 14C dating of known-age bivalves from museum collections, we calculated MRA values and populated the MRA dataset for coastal West Africa over a latitudinal transect from 33°N to 15°S.
The marine reservoir age (MRA) is the difference between the 14C age of the ocean and that of...
