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Reconstruction of Caspian Sea-Level Fluctuations: Radiocarbon Dating Coastal and Bottom Deposits

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2016

Yu. A. Karpytchev
Yu. A. Karpytchev*
Affiliation:
Isotope Laboratory, Institute of Water Problems, Russian Academy of Sciences, 10 Novaya Basmannaya, Moscow 107078 Russia
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Abstract

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Owing to the large basin area of the Caspian Sea, fluctuations in its level reflect climatic changes in the northern hemisphere. To reconstruct these fluctuations, I collected mollusk shells, plant debris, carbonates and organic matter samples for 14C dating from deposits of ancient salt marshes, depressions and bars formed during significant sea-level decline. I studied the impact of eolian sedimentation via parallel dating of carbonates and other materials. The data demonstrate that sea level rises during periods of cooling and falls during warming periods; this is true for both long-term (2–2.5 ka) and short-term climatic changes.

Type
Geochronology and Paleogeography
Information
Radiocarbon , Volume 35 , Issue 3 , 1993 , pp. 409 - 420
Copyright
Copyright © The American Journal of Science 

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