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GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA
Volume 159, Issue -, Pages 126-138Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.gca.2015.03.009
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- United States National Science Foundation (US NSF) [OCE-0926372]
- NOSAMS
- NASA Astrobiology Institute [NNA13AA90A]
- US NSF Cooperative Agreement [OCE- 2310753487]
- Division Of Ocean Sciences
- Directorate For Geosciences [1239667] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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Ooids are small, spherical to ellipsoidal grains composed of concentric layers of CaCO3 that could potentially serve as biogeochemical records of the environments in which they grew. Such records, however, must be placed in the proper temporal context. Therefore, we developed a novel acidification system and employed an accelerator mass spectrometer (AMS) with a gas accepting ion source to obtain radiocarbon (C-14) chronologies extending radially through ooids within one 8-h workday. The method was applied to ooids from Highborne Cay, Bahamas and Shark Bay, Australia, yielding reproducible C-14 chronologies, as well as constraints on the rates and durations of ooid growth and independent estimates of local C-14 reservoir ages. (C) 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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