A multitracer study on peat profiles from Tunguska, Siberia

• Published in: Global and Planetary Change
• Main Authors: TOSITTI, LAURA, SANDRINI, SILVIA, FORLANI, LUISA, M. Mingozzi, M. C. Buoso, M. De Poli, D. Ceccato, D. Zafiropoulos
• Other Authors: L. Tositti, S. Sandrini, L. Forlani, M.C. Buoso, D.Zafiropoulos
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2006
• Subjects: PEAT BOGS; TUNGUSKA; PIXE; 210PB DATING; Tunguska; Monolith; taiga; Siberia
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11585/11050; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloplacha.2006.03.010

Two peat columns from Tunguska (Siberia) were analysed for pollen, spores, charcoal, trace elements and g-emitters in order to identify the fingerprints of the impact of a still unidentified cosmic body (TCB), which occurred in the summer of 1908, and the level of environmental pollution in a backgr...