Synchronous radiocarbon and climate shifts during the last deglaciation

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Hughen, KA [1 ]
Southon, JR
Lehman, SJ
Overpeck, JT
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[1] Woods Hole Oceanog Inst, Dept Marine Chem & Geochem, Woods Hole, MA 02543 USA
[2] Lawrence Livermore Natl Lab, Ctr Accelerator Mass Spectrometry, Livermore, CA 94551 USA
[3] Univ Colorado, Inst Arctic & Alpine Res, Boulder, CO 80309 USA
[4] Univ Colorado, Dept Geol Sci, Boulder, CO 80309 USA
[5] Univ Arizona, Dept Geosci, Tucson, AZ 85721 USA
[6] Univ Arizona, Inst Planet Earth, Tucson, AZ 85721 USA
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10.1126/science.290.5498.1951
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O [数理科学和化学]; P [天文学、地球科学]; Q [生物科学]; N [自然科学总论];
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07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;
摘要
Radiocarbon data from the Cariaco Basin provide calibration of the carbon-14 time scale across the period of deglaciation (15,000 to 10,000 years ago) with resolution available previously only from Holocene tree rings. Reconstructed changes in atmospheric carbon-14 are larger than previously thought, with the largest change occurring simultaneously with the sudden climatic cooling of the Younger Dryas event. Carbon-14 and published beryllium-10 data together suggest that concurrent climate and carbon-14 changes were predominantly the result of abrupt shifts in deep ocean ventilation.
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