@article {2445,
	title = {Radiocarbon-derived sedimentation rates in the Gulf of Mexico},
	journal = {Deep-Sea Research Part Ii-Topical Studies in Oceanography},
	volume = {55},
	year = {2008},
	note = {United States Mineral Management Service [1435-01-99-CT-30991]},
	month = {Dec},
	pages = {2572-2576},
	abstract = {Sedimentation rates were determined for the northern Gulf of Mexico margin sediments at water depths ranging from 770 to 3560m, using radiocarbon determinations of organic matter. Resulting sedimentation rates ranged from 3 to 15 cm/kyr, decreasing with increasing water depth. These rates agree with long-term sedimentation rates estimated previously using stratigraphic methods, and with estimates of sediment delivery rates by the Mississippi River to the northern Gulf of Mexico, but are generally higher by 1-2 orders of magnitude than those estimated by (210)Pb(xs) methods. Near-surface slope sediments from 2737 to water depth in the Mississippi River fan were much older than the rest. They had minimum (14)C ages of 16-27 kyr and delta(13)C values ranging from -24 parts per thousand to -26.59 parts per thousand, indicating a terrestrial origin of organic matter. The sediments from this site were thus likely deposited by episodic mass wasting of slope sediment through the canyon, delineating the previously suggested main pathway of sediment and clay movement to abyssal Gulf sediments. (C) 2008 Published by Elsevier Ltd.},
	keywords = {accumulation, ATCHAFALAYA RIVER, cores, Gulf of Mexico, ice-sheet, Mass, Meltwater, MISSISSIPPI RIVER DELTA, Nepheloid layer transport, Organic carbon burial rates, radiocarbon, Sedimentation rates, TERRIGENOUS ORGANIC-MATTER, wasting},
	isbn = {0967-0645},
	doi = {10.1016/j.dsr2.2008.07.005},
	author = {Santschi, P. H. and Rowe, G. T.}
}
@article {2073,
	title = {Radiocarbon dating of individual fatty acids as a tool for refining Antarctic margin sediment chronologies},
	journal = {Radiocarbon},
	volume = {45},
	year = {2003},
	note = {735tqTimes Cited:25
Cited References Count:29
},
	month = {2003},
	pages = {17-24},
	abstract = {We have measured the radiocarbon contents of individual, solvent-extractable, short-chain (C-14, C-16, and C-18) fatty acids isolated from Ross Sea surface sediments. The corresponding C-14 ages are equivalent to that of the post-bomb dissolved inorganic carbon (DIC) reservoir. Moreover, molecular C-14 variations in surficial (upper 15 cm) sediments indicate that these compounds may prove useful for reconstructing chronologies of Antarctic margin sediments containing uncertain (and potentially variable) quantities of relict organic carbon. A preliminary molecular C-14 chronology suggests that the accumulation rate of relict organic matter has not changed during the last 500 C-14 yr. The focus of this study is to determine the validity of compound-specific C-14 analysis as a technique for reconstructing chronologies of Antarctic margin sediments.},
	keywords = {carbon, ice-sheet, marine-sediments, north-atlantic, organic-matter, ross-sea, southern-ocean},
	isbn = {0033-8222},
	author = {Ohkouchi, N. and Eglinton, T. I. and Hayes, J. M.}
}
