1. Coastal and Marine Hazards and Resources
  2. Geoscience Data System
  3. Dataset 41931

Dataset description: Radiocarbon age dating of biological material from cores

Results of radiocarbon age dating of planktic foraminifera, benthic foraminifera, and pelecypod shell fragments collected from piston cores, trigger weight cores, and IKU grab samples obtained in 2015 and 2017 offshore British Columbia, Canada and southeastern Alaska, U.S. along the Queen Charlotte-Fairweather fault zone.
Version1
Keywordscarbon-14 analysis, chemical analysis, geochemistry, animals, invertebrates, marine chemistry, mollusks, organisms, protists, radiometric dating
Data typesBiology, Chemistry
Formatcomma-delimited text;
Amount63.59 KB

Contacts

Contact
Mary L McGann
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Location of materials and files

Public fileshttps://doi.org/10.5066/P96QMQJT
Metadatahttps://cmgds.marine.usgs.gov/metadata/pcmsc/DataReleases/ScienceBase/DR_P96QMQJT/QCF_Agedata_metadata.xml
Outline - Questions and answers - Text - XML

Activities and equipment

ActivityEquipment
2015-622-FApistoncore
Shelby tubes (thin-walled metal tubes); split barrel samplers (split spoons - thick walled metal tubes); "O" samplers (split spoon with a liner)
2017-652-FAgrab sampler