14 C Activity and Global Carbon Cycle Changes over the Past 50,000 Years

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) - Tập 303 Số 5655 - Trang 202-207 - 2004
Konrad A Hughen1,2,3,4,5, Scott J. Lehman1,2,3,4,5, John Southon1,2,3,4,5, Jonathan T. Overpeck1,2,3,4,5, Olivier Marchal1,2,3,4,5, C. Herring1,2,3,4,5, J. C. Turnbull1,2,3,4,5
1Department of Earth System Science, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697, USA
2Department of Geology and Geophysics, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), Woods Hole, MA 02543, USA
3Department of Geosciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA
4Department of Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), Woods Hole, MA 02543, USA
5Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309 USA

Tóm tắt

A series of 14 C measurements in Ocean Drilling Program cores from the tropical Cariaco Basin, which have been correlated to the annual-layer counted chronology for the Greenland Ice Sheet Project 2 (GISP2) ice core, provides a high-resolution calibration of the radiocarbon time scale back to 50,000 years before the present. Independent radiometric dating of events correlated to GISP2 suggests that the calibration is accurate. Reconstructed 14 C activities varied substantially during the last glacial period, including sharp peaks synchronous with the Laschamp and Mono Lake geomagnetic field intensity minimal and cosmogenic nuclide peaks in ice cores and marine sediments. Simulations with a geochemical box model suggest that much of the variability can be explained by geomagnetically modulated changes in 14 C production rate together with plausible changes in deep-ocean ventilation and the global carbon cycle during glaciation.

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“Active” refers here to those reservoirs that exchange carbon on time scales of 10 1 to 10 4 years.

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This work was supported by NSF (OCE-0117356) Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LDRD-97-ERI-009) and the U.S. Department of Energy (W-7405-Eng-48). We thank the ODP Core Repository in Bremen for core sampling; B. Frantz and P. Zermeno for sample preparation assistance; C. Laj M. Frank J.-P. Valet and J. Stoner for providing their data of past geomagentic field intensities; and S. Johnsen for making available the revised GRIPss09sea chronology. This is WHOI contribution no. 11061.