In:
Radiocarbon, Cambridge University Press (CUP), Vol. 37, No. 2 ( 1995), p. 149-154
Abstract:
The Laacher Sec Tephra (LST) layer provides a unique and invaluable time marker in European sediments with increasing importance because it occurs just before the onset of the Younger Dryas (YD) cold event. As the YD begins ca . 200 calendar years after the LST was deposited, accurate determination of the radiocarbon age of this ash layer will lead to a more accurate age assignment for the beginning of the YD. On the basis of 12 terrestrial plant macrofossil 14 C ages derived from sediments from Soppensee, Holzmaar and Schlakenmehrener Maar, we found an age of at least 11,230 ± 40 bp for the LST event. This is ca . 200 yr older than the often reported age of 11,000 ± 50 bp (van den Bogaard and Schmincke 1985).
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
ISSN:
0033-8222
,
1945-5755
DOI:
10.1017/S0033822200030587
Language:
English
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Publication Date:
1995
detail.hit.zdb_id:
2028560-7
SSG:
11
SSG:
13
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