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Comparison of U-Series and Radiocarbon Dates of Speleothems

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2016

Tomasz Goslar ,
Helena Hercman  and
Anna Pazdur
Tomasz Goslar
Affiliation:
Institute of Geological Sciences, Polish Academy of Sciences, ul. Twarda 51/55, 00-818 Warsaw, Poland
Helena Hercman
Affiliation:
Radiocarbon Laboratory, Institute of Physics, Silesian University of Technology, ul. Krzywoustego 2, 44-100 Gliwice, Poland. Email: goslar@zeus.polsl.gliwice.pl
Anna Pazdur
Affiliation:
Institute of Geological Sciences, Polish Academy of Sciences, ul. Twarda 51/55, 00-818 Warsaw, Poland
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The paper presents a comparison of U-series and radiocarbon dates of speleothems collected in several caves in central and southern Europe and southeast Africa. Despite a large spread of dates, mainly due to contamination with younger carbon, the group of corresponding 14C and 230Th/U ages of speleothem samples seems to be coherent with the previous suggestion of large deviation between the 14C and the absolute time scale between 35 and 45 ka BP. This agrees with the result of frequency analysis of published 14C and 230Th/U ages of speleothem.

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Comparison Records
Information
Radiocarbon , Volume 42 , Issue 3 , 2000 , pp. 403 - 414
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Copyright © 2000 The Arizona Board of Regents on behalf of the University of Arizona 

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