AMS Radiocarbon Measurements from the Swedish Varved Clays
The Swedish varve chronology, or Swedish Time Scale, is an annual chronology based upon the successive correlation of more than 1000 varve-thickness diagrams. The Late Glacial-Early Holocene varved clays were deposited as glaciolacustrine sediments in the Baltic Sea during the recession of the Scand...
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crcambridgeupr:10.1017/s0033822200030277 2024-04-07T07:53:15+00:00 AMS Radiocarbon Measurements from the Swedish Varved Clays Wohlfarth, Barbara Possnert, Göran 2000 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0033822200030277 https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0033822200030277 en eng Cambridge University Press (CUP) https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms Radiocarbon volume 42, issue 3, page 323-333 ISSN 0033-8222 1945-5755 General Earth and Planetary Sciences Archeology journal-article 2000 crcambridgeupr https://doi.org/10.1017/s0033822200030277 2024-03-08T00:34:55Z The Swedish varve chronology, or Swedish Time Scale, is an annual chronology based upon the successive correlation of more than 1000 varve-thickness diagrams. The Late Glacial-Early Holocene varved clays were deposited as glaciolacustrine sediments in the Baltic Sea during the recession of the Scandinavian ice sheet. Formation of varved clays continued throughout the Holocene and is still going on in the estuary of River ångermanälven in northern Sweden. Accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) radiocarbon measurements, which have been performed on terrestrial plant macrofossils extracted from the varved clays, show—in comparison with other annual chronologies—that several hundreds of varve years are missing in the varve chronology. These findings are supported by, among others, pollen stratigraphic investigations on time-equivalent varve year intervals. If an effort were undertaken to evaluate the erroneous parts, the Swedish Time Scale would have the potential of becoming a continuous annual chronology. Article in Journal/Newspaper Ice Sheet Northern Sweden Cambridge University Press Radiocarbon 42 3 323 333 |
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The Swedish varve chronology, or Swedish Time Scale, is an annual chronology based upon the successive correlation of more than 1000 varve-thickness diagrams. The Late Glacial-Early Holocene varved clays were deposited as glaciolacustrine sediments in the Baltic Sea during the recession of the Scandinavian ice sheet. Formation of varved clays continued throughout the Holocene and is still going on in the estuary of River ångermanälven in northern Sweden. Accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) radiocarbon measurements, which have been performed on terrestrial plant macrofossils extracted from the varved clays, show—in comparison with other annual chronologies—that several hundreds of varve years are missing in the varve chronology. These findings are supported by, among others, pollen stratigraphic investigations on time-equivalent varve year intervals. If an effort were undertaken to evaluate the erroneous parts, the Swedish Time Scale would have the potential of becoming a continuous annual chronology. |
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AMS Radiocarbon Measurements from the Swedish Varved Clays |
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AMS Radiocarbon Measurements from the Swedish Varved Clays |
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AMS Radiocarbon Measurements from the Swedish Varved Clays |
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