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Radiocarbon in Annual Coral Rings of Belize and Florida

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2016

Ellen M Druffel
Ellen M Druffel*
Affiliation:
Mount Soledad Radiocarbon Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093
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Radiocarbon measurements on a 109-year-old (1868-1977) core of Montastrea annularis coral from Glover Reef, Belize, in the Gulf of Honduras, reveal uptake of fossil fuel CO2 and bomb 14C by surface ocean waters. The history of Δ14C values revealed by this Belize growth agree remarkably well with results for coral growth from the Florida Straits. It is concluded that these corals are reliable recorders of 14C concentrations of dissolved inorganic carbon (DIOC) in surface waters representative of the Gulf Stream.

Type
Man-Made 14C Variations
Information
Radiocarbon , Volume 22 , Issue 2 , 1980 , pp. 363 - 371
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Copyright © The American Journal of Science 

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