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Ages of Charcoal Samples of Geomorphologic Interest in Northeast Hungary

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2016

Eva Csongor
Affiliation:
Institute of Nuclear Research of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (ATOMKI) Debrecen, Hungary
Zoltán Borsy
Affiliation:
Institute of Nuclear Research of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (ATOMKI) Debrecen, Hungary
Ilona Szabô
Affiliation:
Institute of Nuclear Research of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (ATOMKI) Debrecen, Hungary
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Abstract

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There are extended wind-blown sand territories in the northeastern part of the Great Hungarian Plain. Wind-blown sand migration periods were distineuished by means of radiocarbon age determination of charcoal samples found in the same type of a thin soil layer of chernozem character in different sand dune exposures. The ages of the samples were determined by proportional counter, and are around 12 000 years BP. This thin fossil soil layer, which is regionally spread in the northeast Hungarian wind-blown sand areas, presents a chronological mark between the blown sand forms evolved in the last glacial period and in the Holocene.

Type
Quaternary
Copyright
Copyright © The American Journal of Science

Footnotes

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Geographical Institute of the Kossuth University, Debrecen, Hungary

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