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Temporal Change of Radiocarbon Reservoir Effect in Sugan Lake, Northwest China during the Late Holocene

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2016

Ai-feng Zhou ,
Fa-hu Chen ,
Zong-li Wang ,
Mei-lin Yang ,
Ming-rui Qiang  and
Jia-wu Zhang
Ai-feng Zhou*
Affiliation:
CAEP, Key Laboratory of West China's Environmental System (Ministry of Education), Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, China
Fa-hu Chen
Affiliation:
CAEP, Key Laboratory of West China's Environmental System (Ministry of Education), Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, China
Zong-li Wang
Affiliation:
CAEP, Key Laboratory of West China's Environmental System (Ministry of Education), Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, China
Mei-lin Yang
Affiliation:
Appraisal Center of Environmental Engineering of Yunnan Province, Kunming 650032, China
Ming-rui Qiang
Affiliation:
CAEP, Key Laboratory of West China's Environmental System (Ministry of Education), Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, China
Jia-wu Zhang
Affiliation:
CAEP, Key Laboratory of West China's Environmental System (Ministry of Education), Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, China
*
Corresponding author. Email: zhouaf@lzu.edu.cn
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Abstract

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Many lacustrine chronology records suffer from radiocarbon reservoir effects. A continuous, accurate varve chronology, in conjunction with accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) 14C dating, was used to determine the age of lacustrine sediment and to quantify the past 14C reservoir effect in Sugan Lake (China). Reservoir age varied from 4340 to 2590 yr due to 14C-depleted water in the late Holocene. However, during the Little Ice Age (LIA), 14C reservoir age was relatively stable. According to this study, 14C reservoir age in the late Holocene may be driven by hydrological and climatic changes of this period. Therefore, special caution should be paid to the correction of the 14C reservoir effect by a unique 14C reservoir age in paleoclimatic and paleolimnological study of northwest China.

Type
Radiocarbon, Archaeology, and Landscape Change
Information
Radiocarbon , Volume 51 , Issue 2 , 2009 , pp. 529 - 535
Copyright
Copyright © 2009 by the Arizona Board of Regents on behalf of the University of Arizona 

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