AMS-14C ages measured in deep sea cores from the Southern Ocean : implications for sedimentation rates during isotope stage 2
C14 dates obtained by accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) on monospecific foraminiferal samples from two deep-sea sediment cores raised in the Indian sector of the southern Ocean have been corrected for the difference in C14 composition between
atmosphere and sea surface by using a reconstruction of the latitudinal C14 gradient which existed in the Southern Ocean prior to 1962. The corrected AMS-C14 data show a reduced sedimentation rates in core MD 84-527 between 25,000 and 10,000 yr B.P. For core