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14C Dating of Calcareous Tufa from Different Environments

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2016

Anna Pazdur  and
Mieczysław F Pazdur
Anna Pazdur
Affiliation:
Radiocarbon Laboratory, Silesian Technical University, Institute of Physics, Krzywoustego 2, PL-44-100 Gliwice, Poland
Mieczysław F Pazdur
Affiliation:
Radiocarbon Laboratory, Silesian Technical University, Institute of Physics, Krzywoustego 2, PL-44-100 Gliwice, Poland
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14C dates of carbonate and organic matter fractions are compared with a series of calcareous tufa samples from selected sites representing different geochemical environments and associated with different bedrocks. Results obtained in this study indicate values of apparent age ranging from 940 ± 110 yr for calcareous tufas associated with Pleistocene sediments to 2000 ± 110 yr and even ca 4000 yr for tufas from sites associated with Jurassic or Cretaceous limestone. It was found also that within each of the investigated sites the value of apparent age does not change significantly with the age of the tufa layer.

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IV. Methods and Applications
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Radiocarbon , Volume 28 , Issue 2A , 1986 , pp. 534 - 538
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Copyright © The American Journal of Science 

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