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    Radiocarbon and the Global Carbon Cycle

    This chapter begins by summarizing some of the recent changes in the global carbon (C) cycle, contrasting patterns that exist today with those of the past several hundred years. With this backdrop, the chapter...

    E. A. G. Schuur, S. E. Trumbore, E. R. M. Druffel… in Radiocarbon and Climate Change (2016)

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    Paleoclimatology

    This chapter presents the use of radiocarbon (14C) as a powerful dating tool for placing paleoclimate records on a common timescale. The basics of past climate change are presented, as is the use of 14C in forami...

    J. R. Southon, R. De Pol-Holz, E. R. M. Druffel in Radiocarbon and Climate Change (2016)

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    Forest-killing diffuse CO2 emission at Mammoth Mountain as a sign of magmatic unrest

    MAMMOTH Mountain, in the western United States, is a large dacitic volcano with a long history of vo lean ism that began 200 kyr ago1 and produced phreatic eruptions as recently as 500 ± 200 yr BP (ref. 2). Seism...

    C. D. Farrar, M. L. Sorey, W. C. Evans, J. F. Howle, B. D. Kerr, B. M. Kennedy… in Nature (1995)

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    Low organic carbon accumulation rates in Black Sea sediments

    THE Black Sea, the world's largest anoxic marine basin, is frequently used as a modern analogue for the formation of organic-rich sediments and carbonaceous rocks1–3, on the widely held assumption that anoxic con...

    S. E. Calvert, R. E. Karlin, L. J. Toolin, D. J. Donahue, J. R. Southon… in Nature (1991)

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    Vesuvius/Avellino, one possible source of seventeenth century BC climatic disturbances

    THE eruption of Vesuvius in AD 79 (as described by Pliny) is the archetype1–4 of explosive 'plinian' eruptions which can cause recur-rent local destruction and which may affect global climate through aerosol emis...

    J. S. Vogel, W. Cornell, D. E. Nelson, J. R. Southon in Nature (1990)

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    10Be profiles in seawater

    A knowledge of the marine geochemical cycle of 10Be is basic to the use of this long-lived cosmogenic radioisotope (half life 1.5 Myr) in geochronological and geophysical studies1–3. The first attempts at measuri...

    M. Kusakabe, T. L. Ku, J. Vogel, J. R. Southon, D. E. Nelson, G. Richards in Nature (1982)