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RADIOCARBON
Volume 55, Issue 2-3, Pages 1123-1134Publisher
UNIV ARIZONA DEPT GEOSCIENCES
DOI: 10.1017/S0033822200048037
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- Portuguese Science and Technology Foundation (FCT-MCTES) [PTDC/MAR/68932/2006]
- Organizing Committee of the 21st International Radiocarbon Conference
- [SFRH/BD/45528/2008]
- Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia [PTDC/MAR/68932/2006, SFRH/BD/45528/2008] Funding Source: FCT
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Research concerning the variability of the marine radiocarbon reservoir effect (Delta R) in the southern Iberian Atlantic coast confirms the existence of different. R values for regions that correspond to different oceanographic conditions. Due to these oceanographic conditions, the southern Iberian Atlantic coast can be divided into 3 zones: the Barlavento (windward), where the coastal waters are influenced by an intense upwelling of the northeastern Atlantic circulation (positive Delta R values); the Sotavento (leeward), where an upwelling area of minor intensity occurs; and the Andalusian coast, where because of its configuration does not present any wind-driven coastal upwelling (negative Delta R values). For the first time,. R values were determined for the Sotavento coastal region and, at the same time, new Delta R values were calculated for the Barlavento and the Andalusian coast for the last 3000 yr taking into account the data already obtained but now using a new methodology for calculation. In this way, Delta R weighted mean values were determined for the 3 regions of the southern Iberian Atlantic coast: Delta R = +69 +/- 17 C-14 yr (Barlavento), Delta R = -26 +/- 14 C-14 yr (Sotavento), and Delta R = -108 +/- 31 C-14 yr (Andalusian coast). These values are in accordance with the different oceanographic conditions prevailing in these coastal regions. The data also allow identification of a Bond event at 0.8 ka cal BP and a drastic change in the oceanographic conditions in the Barlavento and Andalusian coastal areas during the 5th millennium cal BP.
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