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RADIOCARBON IN THE PACIFIC AND INDIAN OCEANS AND ITS RELATION TO DEEP WATER MOVEMENTS 1
Author(s) -
Bien G. S.,
Rakestraw N. W.,
Suess H. E.
Publication year - 1965
Publication title -
limnology and oceanography
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.7
H-Index - 197
eISSN - 1939-5590
pISSN - 0024-3590
DOI - 10.4319/lo.1965.10.suppl2.r25
Subject(s) - oceanography , pacific ocean , radiocarbon dating , deep water , geology , deep ocean water , deep sea , water mass , seawater , antarctic bottom water , paleontology
Since 1948, carbon‐14 measurements on the bicarbonate of ocean water samples from the Pacific and Indian oceans have been carried out at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, California. Previous reports of the results of these investigations have been confirmed and amended by many recent measurements. The method of extracting CO 2 from ocean water has been modified and perfected over the past years. The most notable results of the measurements concern the 14 C content of deep ocean water which can be interpreted unambiguously by considering the aging of the water during the time of movement from the Weddell Sea eastward and then northward into the North Pacific Ocean.