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https://doi.org/10.5194/gchron-5-451-2023
https://doi.org/10.5194/gchron-5-451-2023
Research article
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19 Dec 2023
Research article |  | 19 Dec 2023

The marine reservoir age of Greenland coastal waters

Christof Pearce, Karen Søby Özdemir, Ronja Forchhammer Mathiasen, Henrieka Detlef, and Jesper Olsen

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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.