Radiocarbon Date List X: Baffin Bay, Baffin Island, Iceland, Labrador Sea, and the Northern North Atlantic

Authors

J.T. AndrewsFollow
J.P. Briner
D.C. Barber
I.S. Castaneda
T.A. Cooper
G. Dunhill
S. Hagen
M. Hald
F.R. Hall
E. James
A.E. JenningsFollow
N. Koc
G.B KristjansdottirFollow
Sarah M. Principato, Gettysburg CollegeFollow
L.M. Smith
T. Vorren
N. Weiner
K. Williams, Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2004

Department 1

Environmental Studies

Abstract

Date List X contains an annotated listing of 213 radiocarbon dates determined on samples from marine and terrestrial environments. The marine samples were collected from the East Greenland, Iceland, Spitzbergen, and Norwegian margins, Baffin Bay, and Labrador Sea. The terrestrial samples were collected from Vestfirdir, Iceland and Baffin Island. The samples were submitted by INSTAAR and researchers affiliated with INSTAAR's Micropaleontology Laboratory under the direction of Dr.’s John T. Andrews and Anne E. Jennings. All of the dates from marine sediment cores were determined from either shells or foraminifera (both benthic and planktic). All dates were obtained by the Accelerator Mass Spectrometry (AMS) method. Regions of concentrated marine research include: Baffin Bay, Baffin Island, Labrador Sea, East Greenland fjords, shelf and slope, Denmark Strait, the southwestern and northwestern Iceland shelves, and Vestfirdir, Iceland. The non-marine radiocarbon dates are from peat, wood, plant microfossils, and mollusc. The radiocarbon dates have been used to address a variety of research objectives such as: 1. determining the timing of northern hemisphere high latitude environmental changes including glacier advance and retreat, and 2. assessing the accuracy of a fluctuating reservoir correction. Thus, most of the dates constrain the timing, rate, and interaction of late Quaternary paleoenvironmental fluctuations in sea level, glacier extent, sediment input, and changes in ocean circulation patterns. Where significant, stratigraphic and sample contexts are presented for each core to document the basis for interpretations.

Comments

Compiled by G. Dunhill, J.T. Andrews, and G.B. Kristjánsdóttir.

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Recommended Citation

Dunhill. G., Andrews, J.T., Kristjansdottir, G.B., Castañeda, I.S., Hagen, S., James, E., Vorren, T., Briner, J.P., Cooper, T.A., Hald, M., Jennings, A.E., Principato, S., Weiner, N., Barber, D.C., Hall, F.R., Koc, N., Smith, L.M., and Williams, K., 2004, Radiocarbon date List X; Baffin Bay, Baffin Island, Iceland, Labrador Sea, and the northern North Atlantic, Occasional Paper - Colorado University, Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, v. 56, 77pp.

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Published as Paper 56 in the Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research Occasional Paper Series.