Reservoir Ages in Eastern Pacific Coastal and Estuarine Waters

Department of Geography, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720 USA

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John R. Southon

Center for Accelerator Mass Spectrometry, L-397, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94551 USA

ABSTRACT. We have refined marine reservoir age estimates for eastern Pacific coastal waters with radiocarbon measurements of mollusk shells collected prior to 1950. We have also investigated interspecific variability in ¹⁴C ages for historic and ancient shells from San Francisco Bay.

[Radiocarbon Volume 38, Number 3, 1996]