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The marine reservoir age of Greenland coastal waters
Christof Pearce
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Department of Geoscience, Arctic Research Centre and iClimate, Aarhus University, Høegh Guldbergs Gade 2, 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark
Karen Søby Özdemir
Department of Geoscience, Arctic Research Centre and iClimate, Aarhus University, Høegh Guldbergs Gade 2, 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark
Ronja Forchhammer Mathiasen
Department of Geoscience, Arctic Research Centre and iClimate, Aarhus University, Høegh Guldbergs Gade 2, 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark
Henrieka Detlef
Department of Geoscience, Arctic Research Centre and iClimate, Aarhus University, Høegh Guldbergs Gade 2, 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark
Jesper Olsen
Aarhus AMS Centre, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Aarhus University, 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark
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Short summary
Reliable chronologies lie at the base of paleoclimatological reconstructions. When working with marine sediment cores, the most common dating tool for recent sediments is radiocarbon, but this requires calibration to convert it to calendar ages. This calibration requires knowledge of the marine radiocarbon reservoir age, and this is known to vary in space and time. In this study we provide 92 new radiocarbon measurements to improve our knowledge of the reservoir age around Greenland.
Reliable chronologies lie at the base of paleoclimatological reconstructions. When working with...
