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Bomb-Produced Carbon-14 in the Surface Water of the Pacific Ocean

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2016

Timothy W Linick
Timothy W Linick*
Affiliation:
Mt Soledad Radiocarbon Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093
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Abstract

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The distribution of 14C concentrations in the dissolved inorganic carbon in the surface waters of the Pacific Ocean is shown to have a primarily latitudinal pattern with Δ14C maxima at mid-latitudes in both hemispheres and a minimum at the equator. Oceanographic causes of this phenomenon are discussed.

Type
Oceanography
Information
Radiocarbon , Volume 22 , Issue 3: Heidelberg , 1980 , pp. 599 - 606
Copyright
Copyright © The American Journal of Science

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