Radiocarbon dating on four sediment profiles from Bunger Hills, East Antarctica

Radiocarbon dating was carried out on the total organic carbon of 19 lacustrine and marine sediment samples from the Bunger Hills. The results indicate that radiocarbon contamination is negligible throughout two sediment sequences from a fresh water lake. In contrast, two sequences from marine basins are irregularly influenced by the Antarctic Marine Reservoir Effect, which today amounts to more than 1000 years, depending on the degree of dilution with meltwater. All sediments were deposited during Holocene time.

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Melles, Martin, Verkulich, Sergey R, Hermichen, Wolf-Dieter (1994). Dataset: Radiocarbon dating on four sediment profiles from Bunger Hills, East Antarctica. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.707132

DOI retrieved: 1994

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Source https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.707132
Author Melles, Martin
Given Name Martin
Family Name Melles
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Verkulich, Sergey R
Hermichen, Wolf-Dieter
Source Creation 1994
Publication Year 1994
Resource Type application/zip - filename: Melles_1994
Subject Areas
Name: Ecology

Name: LandSurface

Name: Lithosphere

Related Identifiers
Title: Radiocarbon dating of lacustrine and marine sediments from the Bunger Hills, East Antarctica
Identifier: https://doi.org/10.1017/S095410209400057X
Type: DOI
Relation: IsSupplementTo
Year: 1994
Source: Antarctic Science
Authors: Melles Martin , Verkulich Sergey R , Hermichen Wolf-Dieter .

Title: Composition and paleoenvironmental implications of sediments in a fresh water lake and in marine basins of Bunger Hills, East Antarctica
Identifier: hdl:10013/epic.29675.d001
Type: DOI
Relation: References
Year: 1992
Source: Polarforschung
Authors: Verkulich Sergey R , Melles Martin .