First carbon-14 observations in the Great Australian Bight
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Paper/Presentation Title | First carbon-14 observations in the Great Australian Bight |
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Presentation Type | Presentation |
Authors | Ribbe, Joachim (Author), Bye, John T. (Author), Jacobsen, Geralding E. (Author), Lawson, Ewan M. (Author), Smith, Andrew M. (Author), Tomczak, Matthias (Author) and Tuniz, Claudio (Author) |
Journal or Proceedings Title | Radiocarbon |
Journal Citation | 38, pp. 105-106 |
Number of Pages | 2 |
Year | 1996 |
Place of Publication | United States |
Conference/Event | 7th International Conference on Accelerator Mass Spectrometry |
Event Details | 7th International Conference on Accelerator Mass Spectrometry Event Date 18 May 1996 Event Location La Jolla, United States |
Abstract | The Great Australian Bight south of Australia is an important link for the flow of surface, intermediate and deep water between the Indian and Pacific Ocean. Carbon-14 is a tracer of this flow and for the first time, water samples for subsequent carbon-14 analysis were collected at several locations within the Bight. We report and discuss the observed carbon-14 distribution in relation to the general hydrography of the area. For all sample depths, a close correlation of the Bight data with previous measurements from the southeast Indian Ocean was found. Our data represent the first successful Australian Accelerator Mass Spectrometry measurements for ocean water samples, and in the future, we plan to use the observations to validate output from computational experiments with a general ocean circulation model of the Southern Ocean. |
Keywords | radiocarbon, Southern Ocean, Great Australian Bight, Accelerator Mass Spectrometry |
Contains Sensitive Content | Does not contain sensitive content |
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020 | 370803. Physical oceanography |
Public Notes | File reproduced in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher/author. |
Byline Affiliations | University of Sydney |
Flinders University | |
Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation |
https://research.usq.edu.au/item/9xw04/first-carbon-14-observations-in-the-great-australian-bight
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