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Radiocarbon Dating in Estuarine Environments

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Radiocarbon (14C) is a radioactive cosmogenic isotope continuously produced in the upper atmosphere where it rapidly oxidises to 14CO2. As 14CO2, 14C enters the global carbon cycle and is incorporated into living organisms which can be radiocarbon dated following death. Radiocarbon is among the most common radiometric methods used to provide age estimates some 40–50,000 years back in time. Here, a review of the radiocarbon method covering commonly encountered problems in estuarine environments is given. Emphasis will be on methodological procedures concerning how to estimate the 14C reservoir age in these environments, including how reliably error estimates can be calculated. Subsequently, three case studies are presented, providing a short overview of investigations of 14C reservoir age variability in estuarine environments.

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B.C. Lougheed’s Baltic Sea research was partly funded by BONUS INFLOW, part of the European Community’s seventh framework programme (FP/2007–2013) under grant agreement no. 217246 made with BONUS, the joint Baltic Sea research and development programme. The North Sea case study was funded via NERC (NE/F002211/1) and Historic Scotland.

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  1. Department of Physics and Astronomy, AMS 14C Dating Centre, Aarhus University, Ny Munkegade 120, Aarhus, 8000, Denmark

    Jesper Olsen

  2. Scottish Universities Environmental Research Centre, Scottish Enterprise Technology Park, Rankine Avenue, East Kilbride, G750QF, Scotland, UK

    Philippa Ascough

  3. Department of Earth Sciences, Vrije Universiteit, De Boelelaan, 1085, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Bryan C. Lougheed

  4. Department of Earth Sciences, Uppsala University, Villavägen 161081HV, Uppsala, 75236, Sweden

    Bryan C. Lougheed

  5. The National Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland (GEUS), Øster Voldgade 10, Copenhagen, 1350, Denmark

    Peter Rasmussen

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Olsen, J., Ascough, P., Lougheed, B.C., Rasmussen, P. (2017). Radiocarbon Dating in Estuarine Environments. In: Weckström, K., Saunders, K., Gell, P., Skilbeck, C. (eds) Applications of Paleoenvironmental Techniques in Estuarine Studies. Developments in Paleoenvironmental Research, vol 20. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-024-0990-1_7

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