Marine Reservoir Correction Database Update Notices


In cases where the 14C measurements were originally reported as δ14C, Δ14C, or pMC values, we recalculated the conventional 14C age, correcting for isotopic fractionation if that had not been done previously. It is sometimes difficult to tell from the literature whether a Δ14C value has been age corrected or not. If you find an error in our database, please let us know. p.j.reimer@qub.ac.uk


14 Mar 2012Post-industrial and pre-bomb coral data for the Equatorial Pacific taken from Zaunbrecher 2009
06 Feb 2012Sea of Japan and Okhotsk Sea from Kuzmin
10 Jan 2012A new interface to the database was implimented. You must click on a region of interest and then select "Get Data" to get the user specified number of points nearest the click (default is 10)
18 Oct 2011Western and NE Australia from O'Connor 2010 and Ulm 2010
21 Jul 2011Northeast Atlantic data from Tisnerat-Laborde 2010
27 Oct 2010Set ΔR_err=14C_err across the entire database. This principal had not been uniformly applied in the past. Reservoir_Err continues to be 14C_err with calibration curve error addded in quadrature. Or should be.
27 Oct 2010Corals from Puerto Rico, Kilbourne (2007), have been added. A new paradigm is being adopted, where data for individual coral bands are being added, rather than averaging all of them, as was done in the past.
28 Jun 2010Coast of Israel from Boaretto, 2010
21 Apr 2010St Catherines Island, Georgia from Thomas 2008
21 Apr 2010E. Australia from Ulm 2002
21 Apr 2010S. Pacific from Petchey 2008a,b
21 Apr 2010various corrections by Petchey too numerous to mention
10 Jul 2009Papua New Guinea data from McGregor et al 2008
1 Apr 2009Isle of Man data from Butler et al 2009
15 Jan 2009Introduced user interface based on google maps
14 Jan 2009Added Norway data from Mangerud et al 2006
14 Jan 2009Added Peru data from Jones et al 2007
14 Jan 2009Added Argentina data from Gomez et al 2008. This includes some very anomolous results
14 Jan 2009Added New Zealand data from Saveney et al 2006. The calendar age of these samples is known from a beach uplift date.
14 Jan 2009Added west Africa data from Ndeye 2008
14 May 2008Added St Helena data from Lewis et al
14 May 2008Added Western Pacific data from Yoneda et al
14 May 2008Added central coast of Japan data from Shishikura, et al
24 Apr 2006Incorporated measurements from McNeeley et al. 2006, with exception of samples with Lab Id's of K (Copenhagen), Lu (Lund), and T (Trondheim) which are correct as given previously.
24 Apr 2006Geographic coordinates remain the primary means of accessing the database. However there is now a link to a Generalized Query that allows query by any of the columns in the database
26 Feb 2006Converted database to MYSQL and dropped regional averages
26 Feb 2006Map Numbers have changed
4 Aug 2005additions to Yellow Sea, Carribean Sea
4 Aug 2005add Easter Island
17 Feb 2005ΔR values recalculated with Marine04 calibration dataset
17 Feb 2005reservoir ages recalculated with IntCal04 or SHCal04 calibration dataset
17 Feb 2005additions to SW Atlantic
17 Feb 2005additions to Red Sea/ Persian Gulf
17 Feb 2005additions to E Equatorial Pacific
17 Feb 2005additions to South China Sea
17 Feb 2005additions to S Pacific
17 Feb 2005additions to Coral and Solomon Seas
17 Feb 2005additions to Bismarck Sea (New Ireland)
17 Feb 2005additions to SE Indian Ocean
17 Feb 2005additions to Carribean Sea
17 Feb 2005Nauru and Fanning Islands combined in regional average for W Central Equatorial Pacific (map no 486 removed)
6 Nov 2003add Kenya
6 Nov 2003additions to Hawaii
6 Nov 2003Chatham Islands separated from New Zealand
20 Oct 2002additions to SW Atlantic
14 Jul 2002additions to W Mediterranean
14 Jul 2002additions to W subtropical Pacific
14 Jul 2002add E Mediterranean
14 Jul 2002add Aegean Sea
4 Jul 2002additions to Baffin Bay
4 Jul 2002additions to Puget Sound
4 Jul 2002additions and corrections to W Greenland
4 Jul 2002add Prince Patrick Island
14 Jul 2002add Sea of Japan
11 Jul 2002additions to E Central Australia
21 May 2002additions and corrections to NE Greenland
22 Oct 2001add Java Sea
18 Oct 2001correction to N California (Half Moon Bay)
18 Oct 2001correction to Southern California

26 Jul 2001

New data has been added for:

Eastern and Western Arabian Sea
SW Indian Ocean
E. coast South Africa
Red Sea
Bay of Bengal
South China Sea
Northwest Australia and Java
Java Sea
Yellow Sea


6 Jan 2001

Corrections The reservoir corrections for the following locations were recalculated because the published data was not age corrected as previously assumed:

Fiji (Viti Levu) South Pacific Ocean
Cocos-Keeling Island Indian Ocean
Hurghada and Djibouti, Red Sea

New data has been added for:

Arabian Sea
Bay of Bengal