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Climatic Signature and Radiocarbon Chronology of Middle and Late Pleniglacial Loess from Eurasia: Comparison with the Marine and Greenland Records

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2016

P Haesaerts ,
I Borziac ,
V P Chekha ,
V Chirica ,
F Damblon ,
N I Drozdov ,
L A Orlova ,
S Pirson  and
J van der Plicht
P Haesaerts*
Affiliation:
Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Vautier Str. 29, B-1000 Brussels, Belgium
I Borziac
Affiliation:
Institute of Archaeology, Kichinau, Moldavian Republic
V P Chekha
Affiliation:
Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography, Academgorodog, 660036 Krasnoyarsk, Russia
V Chirica
Affiliation:
Institute of Archaeology, Catargui Str. 18, 6600 Iasi, Romania
F Damblon
Affiliation:
Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Vautier Str. 29, B-1000 Brussels, Belgium
N I Drozdov
Affiliation:
Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography, Academgorodog, 660036 Krasnoyarsk, Russia
L A Orlova
Affiliation:
United Institute of Geology, Geophysics and Mineralogy, 630090 Novosibrisk, Russia
S Pirson
Affiliation:
Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Vautier Str. 29, B-1000 Brussels, Belgium
J van der Plicht
Affiliation:
Centre for Isotope Research, Groningen University, Nijenborgh, 9747 AG Groningen, the Netherlands. Also: Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University, PO Box 9515, 2300RA Leiden, the Netherlands
*
Corresponding author. Email: [email protected]
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Recent investigations devoted to the Eurasian loess formations have provided an integrated high-resolution climatic sequence well radiocarbon dated between 13.4 and 42.5 kyr BP on charcoal and wood remains. Here, we show that the reproducible climatic signature of this loess sequence can be compared by proxy-correlation with the Greenland ice climatic signals, taking into account the distribution of the aeolian components in both records. This correlation allows situating with precision the series of 14C dates obtained from loess with regard to the Greenland climatic sequence. In this way, comparing the atmospheric loess-derived 14C chronology with the chronologies of the marine sequences becomes possible.

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Radiocarbon , Volume 51 , Issue 1 , 2009 , pp. 301 - 318
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Copyright © 2009 by the Arizona Board of Regents on behalf of the University of Arizona 

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