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Towards a Deeper Understanding of How Carbonate Isotopes (14C, 13C, 18O) Reflect Environmental Changes: A Study with Recent 210Pb-Dated Sediments of the Plitvice Lakes, Croatia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2016

Nada Horvatinčić ,
Jadranka Barešić ,
Slavica Babinka ,
Bogomil Obelić ,
Ines Krajcar Bronić ,
Polona Vreča  and
Axel Suckow
Nada Horvatinčić*
Affiliation:
Ruder Bošković Institute, Bijenička 54, 10002 Zagreb, Croatia
Jadranka Barešić
Affiliation:
Ruder Bošković Institute, Bijenička 54, 10002 Zagreb, Croatia
Slavica Babinka
Affiliation:
Leibniz Institute for Applied Geosciences, Stilleweg 2, 30655 Hannover, Germany
Bogomil Obelić
Affiliation:
Ruder Bošković Institute, Bijenička 54, 10002 Zagreb, Croatia
Ines Krajcar Bronić
Affiliation:
Ruder Bošković Institute, Bijenička 54, 10002 Zagreb, Croatia
Polona Vreča
Affiliation:
Jožef Stefan Institute, Jamova 39, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
Axel Suckow
Affiliation:
Jožef Stefan Institute, Jamova 39, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia Now at: International Atomic Energy Agency, Wagramerstrasse 5, A-1400 Vienna, Austria
*
Corresponding author. Email: nada.horvatincic@irb.hr
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Five short cores (top 40–45 cm of sediment) from 4 lakes of the Plitvice Lakes system (Croatia) were measured for 210Pb, 137Cs, a14C, δ13C, and δ18O in order to study the influence of environmental changes on the sediment system in small and large lakes. Sediment chronology based on the constant flux (CF) 210Pb model was the most reliable. Lake sediments consisted mainly of autochthonous carbonates with higher sedimentation rates in small lakes. Sediments from 2 large lakes, Prošće and Kozjak, showed constant stable isotope profiles for the carbonate fraction and full agreement between the 137Cs and 210Pb chronologies. Sediments from 2 small lakes, Gradinsko and Kaluderovac, showed synchronous increases in 14C and δ13C and disturbed 137Cs records. All lakes showed an increase in a14C in the carbonate sediments above the first occurrence of 137Cs, which was interpreted as a damped (~10 pMC increase in a14C) and decades-delayed consequence of the bomb-induced increase in a14C in atmospheric CO2. For the small lakes, increased δ13C in the last 2 decades and part of the a14C increase is probably due to an increase in primary productivity, which enhanced biologically induced calcite precipitation with concomitant changes in the carbon isotopic composition of carbonate sediments. δ13C values of a near-shore sediment core close to the confluence of one of the tributaries of Lake Kozjak showed that the carbonates in this core are a mixture of autochthonous and eroded allochthonous mineral carbonate. This core had a higher fraction of organic material. The sedimentation rate at this core site was high, but rates could not be quantified by 210Pb, 137Cs, or 14C.

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Radiocarbon , Volume 50 , Issue 2 , 2008 , pp. 233 - 253
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Copyright © 2008 by the Arizona Board of Regents on behalf of the University of Arizona 

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