@article { ISI:000372829700018, title = {A Note on Reporting of Reservoir C-14 Disequilibria and Age Offsets}, journal = {RADIOCARBON}, volume = {58}, number = {{1}}, year = {2016}, month = {MAR}, pages = {205-211}, type = {Article}, abstract = {Reservoir age offsets are widely used to correct marine and speleothem radiocarbon age measurements for various calibration purposes. They also serve as a powerful tracer for carbon cycle dynamics. However, a clear terminology regarding reservoir age offsets is lacking, sometimes leading to miscalculations. This note seeks to provide consistent conventions for reporting reservoir C-14 disequilibria useful to a broad range of environmental sciences. This contribution introduces the (FR)-R-14 and R-14 metrics to express the relative C-14 disequilibrium between two contemporaneous reservoirs and the R metric as the associated reservoir age offset.}, keywords = {freshwater effect, hardwater effect, radiocarbon, Reservoir age, Reservoir effect, ventilation age}, issn = {0033-8222}, doi = {10.1017/RDC.2015.22}, author = {Soulet, Guillaume and Skinner, Luke C. and Beaupr{\'e}, Steven R. and Galy, Valier} }