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Comparative 230Th/U and 14C dating of a buried stump layer (Western Siberia). / Maksimov, F.; Kuznetsov, V.; Laukhin, S.; Kuksa, K.; Levchenko, S.; Grigoriev, V.
In: Geochronometria, Vol. 42, No. 1, 2015, p. 139-147.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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T1 - Comparative 230Th/U and 14C dating of a buried stump layer (Western Siberia)
AU - Maksimov, F.
AU - Kuznetsov, V.
AU - Laukhin, S.
AU - Kuksa, K.
AU - Levchenko, S.
AU - Grigoriev, V.
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - Dating of late Pleistocene sediments remains a challenge in Quaternary chronology, due to the inherent limitations of the 14C and OSL methods. The 230Th/U radioisotope method is theoretically applicable to wood remnants contained within Pleistocene sediments, but few results have been pub-lished to date and in some cases, the age data are ambiguous. This paper tests the use of 230Th/U dating of fossil wood remnants dated earlier by radiocarbon method. We analyzed a buried larch trunk from a well-known stump layer in the Lipovka outcrop, located on the Tobol River bank in Western Siberia. The stump layer is preserved in situ. We determined the specific activities of U and Th iso-topes in samples of both modern pine and fossil larch and proposed a model for the incorporation and distribution of U and Th in the buried wood during aging. Complications related with the recognition of geochemical closed systems with respect to U did not allow obtaining completely reliable 230Th/U age. Despite this the 230Th/U age o
AB - Dating of late Pleistocene sediments remains a challenge in Quaternary chronology, due to the inherent limitations of the 14C and OSL methods. The 230Th/U radioisotope method is theoretically applicable to wood remnants contained within Pleistocene sediments, but few results have been pub-lished to date and in some cases, the age data are ambiguous. This paper tests the use of 230Th/U dating of fossil wood remnants dated earlier by radiocarbon method. We analyzed a buried larch trunk from a well-known stump layer in the Lipovka outcrop, located on the Tobol River bank in Western Siberia. The stump layer is preserved in situ. We determined the specific activities of U and Th iso-topes in samples of both modern pine and fossil larch and proposed a model for the incorporation and distribution of U and Th in the buried wood during aging. Complications related with the recognition of geochemical closed systems with respect to U did not allow obtaining completely reliable 230Th/U age. Despite this the 230Th/U age o
U2 - 10.1515/geochr-2015-0016
DO - 10.1515/geochr-2015-0016
M3 - Article
VL - 42
SP - 139
EP - 147
JO - Geochronometria
JF - Geochronometria
SN - 1733-8387
IS - 1
ER -
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