NATURAL RADIOCARBON IN THE MEDITERRANEAN SEA1
- 1 November 1969
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in Limnology and Oceanography
- Vol. 14 (6) , 883-888
- https://doi.org/10.4319/lo.1969.14.6.0883
Abstract
14C:12C ratios for inorganic carbon extracted from 11 water samples collected in the Mediterranean Sea during the summers of 1956 and 1958 fall within the range of 0.917 to 0.952 of the fractionation corrected 14C:12C ratio for pre‐1900 atmospheric CO2. This small range indicates that vertical mixing takes place within this sea on a time scale of about 100 years. The 14C:12C ratios in the surface and intermediate waters of the Mediterranean are, as expected from hydrologic considerations, nearly equal to those in the adjacent surface North Atlantic.This publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: