Changes in deep-water formation during the Younger Dryas event inferred from 10Be and 14C records

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Raimund Muscheler
Jürg Beer
Gerhard Wagner
Robert C. Finkel
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[1] EAWAG,Department of Surface Waters
[2] Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory,Center for Accelerator Mass Spectrometry, and Geosciences and Environmental Technology Division
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Nature | 2000年 / 408卷
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Variations in atmospheric radiocarbon (14C) concentrations can be attributed either to changes in the carbon cycle1—through the rate of radiocarbon removal from the atmosphere—or to variations in the production rate of 14C due to changes in solar activity or the Earth's magnetic field2. The production rates of 10Be and 14C vary in the same way, but whereas atmospheric radiocarbon concentrations are additionally affected by the carbon cycle, 10Be concentrations reflect production rates more directly. A record of the 10Be production-rate variations can therefore be used to separate the two influences—production rates and the carbon cycle—on radiocarbon concentrations. Here we present such an analysis of the large fluctuations in atmospheric 14C concentrations, of unclear origin3, that occurred during the Younger Dryas cold period6. We use the 10Be record from the GISP2 ice core5 to model past production rates of radionuclides, and find that the largest part of the fluctuations in atmospheric radiocarbon concentrations can be attributed to variations in production rate. The residual difference between measured 14C concentrations and those modelled using the 10Be record can be explained with an additional change in the carbon cycle, most probably in the amount of deep-water formation.
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