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Radiocarbon Calibration by Means of Varves Versus 14C Ages of Terrestrial Macrofossils from Lake Gościąż and Lake Perespilno, Poland

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2016

Tomasz Goslar ,
Maurice Arnold ,
Nadine Tisnerat-Laborde ,
Christine Hatté ,
Martine Paterne  and
Magdalena Ralska-Jasiewiczowa
Tomasz Goslar
Affiliation:
Institute of Physics, Silesian University of Technology, ul. Krzywoustego 2, 44-100 Gliwice, Poland. Email: goslar@zeus.polsl.gliwice.pl
Maurice Arnold
Affiliation:
UMS 2004 (CNRS-CEA), Tandetron Bat. 30, Avenue de la Terrasse, 91198 Gif sur Yvette, France
Nadine Tisnerat-Laborde
Affiliation:
Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, CNRS-CEA, Avenue de la Terrasse, 91198 Gif sur Yvette, France
Christine Hatté
Affiliation:
Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, CNRS-CEA, Avenue de la Terrasse, 91198 Gif sur Yvette, France
Martine Paterne
Affiliation:
Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, CNRS-CEA, Avenue de la Terrasse, 91198 Gif sur Yvette, France
Magdalena Ralska-Jasiewiczowa
Affiliation:
W. Szafer Institute of Botany, Polish Academy of Sciences, ul. Lubicz 46, 31-512 Kraków, Poland
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This paper presents radiocarbon dates of terrestrial macrofossils from Lakes Gościąż and Perespilno, Poland. These data agree very well with most of the German pine calibration curve. In the Late Glacial, they generally agree with the data from Lake Suigetsu, Japan, and indicate constant or even increasing 14C age between 12.9 and 12.7 ka BP, rapid decline of 14C age around 12.6 ka BP, and a long plateau 10,400 14C BP around 12 ka BP. Correlation with corals and data from the Cariaco basin seems to support the concept of site-speficic, constant values of reservoir correction, in contradiction to those introduced in the INTCAL98 calibration. Around the Allerød/Younger Dryas boundary our data strongly disagree with those from the Cariaco basin, which reflects large discrepancy between calendar chronologies at that period. The older sequence from Lake Perespilno indicates two periods of rapid decline in 14C age, around 14.2 and 13.9 ka BP.

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Varve Chronologies
Information
Radiocarbon , Volume 42 , Issue 3 , 2000 , pp. 335 - 348
Copyright
Copyright © 2000 The Arizona Board of Regents on behalf of the University of Arizona 

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