Validating Annual Growth Bands of Deep-Sea Black Corals and Calculating Ocean Reservoir Ages in the Gulf of Mexico

E Brendan Roark1, M. Leslye Mohon2, Nancy Prouty3, Renald N Guillemette2, Stewart Fallon4 and Steve W Ross5, (1)Texas A & M University College Station, College Station, United States, (2)Texas A & M University College Station, College Station, TX, United States, (3)USGS, Santa Cruz, United States, (4)The Australian National University, Research School of Earth Sciences, Canberra, Australia, (5)University of North Carolina, Wilmington, Center for Marine Science, Wilmington, NC, United States