Rapid Communication The marine 14C age of the Vedde Ash Bed along the west coast of Norway

ABSTRACT: Articulated molluscs, sea urchins and barnacle fragments close to the Vedde Ash Bed in a shallow marine deposit on the west coast of Norway have been 14C dated. The weighted mean of four dates from a sediment slice 8 cm thick centred on the Vedde Ash Bed is 10920 6 24 14C yr BP. The most a...

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Main Authors: Stein Bondevik, Jan Mangerud, Steinar Gulliksen
Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
Format: Text
Language:English
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water towards the open North Atlantic and Nordic Seas. Copyright Ó 2001 John Wiley &amp
Sons
Ltd. KEYWORDS
Vedde Ash
marine 14C reservoir age
shallow marine deposit
western Norway
chronology
Norway
Nordic Seas
North Atlantic
Online Access:http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.454.8516
http://folk.uib.no/ngljm/PDF_files/BONDEVIK01.PDF
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Summary:ABSTRACT: Articulated molluscs, sea urchins and barnacle fragments close to the Vedde Ash Bed in a shallow marine deposit on the west coast of Norway have been 14C dated. The weighted mean of four dates from a sediment slice 8 cm thick centred on the Vedde Ash Bed is 10920 6 24 14C yr BP. The most accurate 14C age of the Vedde Ash from terrestrial plant macrofossils is 10310 6 50 yr BP. The difference is the 14C reservoir age for coastal water at the west coast of Norway during the mid-Younger Dryas and equals 610 6 55 yr. This is 230 yr older than the reservoir age for the Bølling/Allerød and for the present day in this area. The result supports earlier conclusions of a higher reservoir age for the Younger Dryas in the North Atlantic and Nordic Seas, although our reservoir age of 610 6 55 yr is a few hundred years younger. This suggests that the 14C reservoir age at Vedde Ash time may increase from coastal

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