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Interglacial Growth of Tufa in Croatia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Nada Horvatinčić ,
Romana Čalić  and
Mebus A. Geyh
Nada Horvatinčić
Affiliation:
Rud̄er Bošković Institute, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia
Romana Čalić
Affiliation:
Rud̄er Bošković Institute, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia
Mebus A. Geyh
Affiliation:
Geowissenschaftliche Gemeinschaftsaufgaben, 30 655 Hannover, Germany
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Abstract

Tufa samples from the Krka River area in Croatia were dated by 14C and 230Th/234U methods. The study area is situated in the karst region of the southern Dinarides. 14C ages of 40 tufa samples collected at the waterfalls coincide with the early Holocene interglaciation, up to 6000 14C yr B.P. Comparison of conventional 14C dates of Holocene tufa and those of speleothems in the Dinaric Karst shows that speleothem formation started several thousand years earlier than tufa growth. Samples of old tufa deposits from the Krka River (17) and Plitvice Lakes (12) area and speleothem samples from caves in Dinaric Karst (5) yield 34 230Th/234U dates, most of which cluster around interglacial marine δ18O stage 5 (21). Eight of 13 older dates belong to interglacial stages 7 and 9; only 5 dates fall within stage 6 and 8 glaciations. 230Th/234U dates of speleothems and tufa samples from central Europe have indicated that these were formed preferentially during warm and humid interglacial and interstadial periods, and it appears that this is true of southern Croatia as well. Stable isotope (δ13C, δ18O) analyses of 40 tufa samples from the Krka River area were compared with stable isotope analyses of tufa from the Plitvice Lakes area. The δ13C values for both locations are similar and range from −10 to −6‰, indicating similar conditions of tufa formation. A systematic difference between the δ18O values of tufa in these two areas reflects the regional distribution of the oxygen composition of precipitation.

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Quaternary Research , Volume 53 , Issue 2 , March 2000 , pp. 185 - 195
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University of Washington

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