Refined reservoir correction for radiocarbon dating of the southern Great Barrier Reef based on U-series dated corals
Duration:
January 2015
Funding source:
Australian Institute of Nuclear Science and Engineering
Radiocarbon dating is critical to unravelling the latest Pleistocene and Holocene past, both in terms of palaeoclimate, but also radiocarbon.
However, calibration of radiocarbon years is non-trivial, and in marine environments must take into account specific reservoir effects that are unique to each region.
This project uses accelerator mass spectrometry radiocarbon dating coupled with high precision U-series dating on corals recovered from cores on Heron Reef to determine the reservoir correction curve for the Coral Sea over the last ~7,000 years.
