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Radiocarbon Studies of Peat Bogs: an Investigation of South Kamchatka Volcanoes and Upper Volga Archeological Sites

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2016

N E Zaretskaia ,
V V Ponomareva ,
L D Sulerzhitsky  and
M G Zhilin
N E Zaretskaia
Affiliation:
Geological institute of RAS, Pyzhevsky per. 7, Moscow, 109017, Russia. Email: [email protected].
V V Ponomareva
Affiliation:
Institute of Volcanic Geology and Geochemistry, Far East Division of RAS, Boulevard Piipa 9, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, 683006, Russia
L D Sulerzhitsky
Affiliation:
Geological institute of RAS, Pyzhevsky per. 7, Moscow, 109017, Russia. Email: [email protected].
M G Zhilin
Affiliation:
Institute of Archeology of RAS, Dm. Ulianov St 19, Moscow, 117036, Russia
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Abstract

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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 14C 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.

Type
I. Our ‘Dry’ Environment: Above Sea Level
Information
Radiocarbon , Volume 43 , Issue 2B: Proceedings of the 17th International Radiocarbon Conference (Part 2 of 3), Conference Editors: Israel Carmi, Elisabetta Boaretto , 2001 , pp. 571 - 580
Copyright
Copyright © 2001 by the Arizona Board of Regents on behalf of the University of Arizona 

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