AMS radiocarbon dating of organic fractions from varved lake sediments: an empirical test of reliability

Replicate cores of annually laminated (varved) sediments have been used to test the accuracy and precision of chronologies of lake sediment accumulation over the last 1000 years, based on AMS 14C measurements. The internally consistent results show that in the case of the soft-water lake sediments s...

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Published in:Journal of paleolimnology 1997-07, Vol.18 (1), p.87-91
Main Authors: Oldfield, Frank, Crooks, Peter R, J, Harkness, Douglas D, Petterson, Gunilla
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description Replicate cores of annually laminated (varved) sediments have been used to test the accuracy and precision of chronologies of lake sediment accumulation over the last 1000 years, based on AMS 14C measurements. The internally consistent results show that in the case of the soft-water lake sediments studied (Kassjön, northern Sweden), all the organic fractions that include aquatic components give significantly older dates than expected. Only the single terrestrial macrofossil and the fine, unidentified residual particulate fraction provide dates close to the true age of the sediments. The results also show that age discrepancies for some fractions are not constant over time. The age discrepancies may arise from some carbon reservoir effect within the aquatic ecosystem, from resuspension and focusing of older marginal organic material into the deepest part of the lake or from some combination of these processes. More work is needed on the 14C 'age' of organic fractions in varve-dated sediments from a range of lake types.[PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]
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