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14C Dating of Holocene Soils from an Island in Lake Pumoyum Co (Southeastern Tibetan Plateau)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2016

Takahiro Watanabe ,
Tetsuya Matsunaka ,
Toshio Nakamura ,
Mitsugu Nishimura ,
Takahiro Sakai ,
Xiao Lin ,
Kazuho Horiuchi ,
Fumiko Watanabe Nara ,
Takeshi Kakegawa  and
Liping Zhu
Takahiro Watanabe*
Affiliation:
Graduate School of Science, Tohoku University, 6-3 Aramaki Aza Aoba, Aoba-ku, Sendai 980-8578, Japan
Tetsuya Matsunaka
Affiliation:
School of Marine Science and Technology, Tokai University, 3-20-1 Orido, Shimizu, Shizuoka 424-8610, Japan
Toshio Nakamura
Affiliation:
Center for Chronological Research, Nagoya University, Furo-cho, Chikusa, Nagoya 464-8602, Japan
Mitsugu Nishimura
Affiliation:
School of Marine Science and Technology, Tokai University, 3-20-1 Orido, Shimizu, Shizuoka 424-8610, Japan
Takahiro Sakai
Affiliation:
Faculty of Science and Technology, Hirosaki University, Bunkyo-cho, Hirosaki 036-8561, Japan
Xiao Lin
Affiliation:
Geological University of China, Wuhan 430000, China Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, No. 18 Shuangqing Road, Haidian District, Beijing 100085, China
Kazuho Horiuchi
Affiliation:
Faculty of Science and Technology, Hirosaki University, Bunkyo-cho, Hirosaki 036-8561, Japan
Fumiko Watanabe Nara
Affiliation:
Graduate School of Science, Tohoku University, 6-3 Aramaki Aza Aoba, Aoba-ku, Sendai 980-8578, Japan
Takeshi Kakegawa
Affiliation:
Graduate School of Science, Tohoku University, 6-3 Aramaki Aza Aoba, Aoba-ku, Sendai 980-8578, Japan
Liping Zhu
Affiliation:
Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, No. 18 Shuangqing Road, Haidian District, Beijing 100085, China
*
Corresponding author. Email: [email protected].
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Soil samples from an 85-cm-long continuous section (PY608ES) were collected from an island in Lake Pumoyum Co (southeastern Tibetan Plateau, ∼5020 m asl) in August 2006. To estimate past environmental conditions of Lake Pumoyum Co during the Holocene, we analyzed radiocarbon ages, stable carbon isotope compositions, and total organic carbon/total nitrogen (TOC/TN) atomic ratios of the soil samples. The 14C measurements were performed with the Tandetron accelerator mass spectrometry system at the Center for Chronological Research, Nagoya University. The 14C concentration in the surface layer (101 pMC; 5–10 cm soil depth) was nearly modern. A 14C chronology of the sequence indicated that continuous soil development began on the island in Lake Pumoyum Co at ∼5800 cal BP (at 63 cm soil depth, the top of a gravel layer). These results may reflect a decrease in the lake level in the middle Holocene. The age of the obvious lithologic boundary (∼5800 cal BP) corresponds to the end of Holocene climate optimum.

Type
Soils and Sediments
Information
Radiocarbon , Volume 52 , Issue 3: 20th Int. Radiocarbon Conference Proceedings , 2010 , pp. 1443 - 1448
Copyright
Copyright © 2010 by the Arizona Board of Regents on behalf of the University of Arizona 

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