Radiocarbon studies of peat bogs; an investigation of South Kamchatka volcanoes and upper Volga archaeological sites.

• Main Authors: Zaretskaia, N E, Ponomareva, V V, Sulerzhitsky, L D, Zhilin, M G
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Radiocarbon 2001
• Subjects: reconstruction;mires;bogs;peatlands;Kamchatka Peninsula;Volga region;archaeological sites;Holocene;volcanoes;Russian Pacific region;paleoclimatology;Russian Federation;Commonwealth of Independent States;Asia;Cenozoic;Quaternary;C 14;carbon;dates;isotopes;radioactive isotopes;absolute age; Kamchatka Peninsula; Pacific; Kamchatka
• Online Access: https://journals.uair.arizona.edu/index.php/radiocarbon/article/view/3888

We have undertaken extensive programs of natural radiocarbon measurement to date the evidence for various events buried in peat bogs. Two case studies are described here: 1) the chronological reconstruction of South Kamchatka volcanic eruptions and, 2) investigation of multi-layered archeological sites in the Upper Volga River Basin. Studies of sample composition and peat taphonomy allowed us to determine the source of (super 14) C age deviations and to reconstruct the environmental history of organic matter accumulation. Data sets, obtained from different types of peat bog and containing traces of these Holocene events, are discussed.