Comprehensive Update of Marine Reservoir Values for New Zealand Coastal Waters to Inform Coastal Hazard Research

Marine radiocarbon ( 14 C) ages are an important geochronology tool for the understanding of past earthquakes and tsunamis that have impacted the coastline of New Zealand. To advance this field of research, we need an improved understanding of the radiocarbon marine reservoir correction for coastal waters of New Zealand. Here we report 170 new ΔR 20 (1900–1950) measurements from around New Zealand made on pre-1950 marine shells and mollusks killed by the 1931 Napier earthquake. The influence of feeding method, living depth and environmental preference on ΔR is evaluated and we find no influence from these factors except for samples living at or around the high tide mark on rocky open coastlines, which tend to have anomalously low ΔR values. We examine how ΔR varies spatially around the New Zealand coastline and identify continuous stretches of coastline with statistically similar ΔR values. We recommend subdividing the New Zealand coast into four regions with different marine reservoir corrections: A: south and western South Island, ΔR 20 –113 ± 33 yr, B: Cook Strait and western North Island, ΔR 20 –171 ± 29 yr, C: northeastern North Island, ΔR 20 –143 ± 18 yr, D: eastern North Island and eastern South Island, ΔR 20 –70 ± 39 yr

Geography · Physical geography · Radiocarbon dating · earthquake and tectonic studies · Geology and Paleoclimatology Research · Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies · Geology · Oceanography · Paleontology

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