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Radiocarbon Dating of Shells and Foraminifera from the Skagen Core, Denmark: Evidence of Reworking

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2016

Susanne Heier-Nielsen ,
Keld Conradsen ,
Jan Heinemeier ,
K. L. Knudsen ,
H. L. Nielsen ,
Niels Rud  and
Á. E. Sveinbjörnsdóttir
Susanne Heier-Nielsen
Affiliation:
Department of Earth Sciences, University of Aarhus, DK-8000 Aarhus C, Denmark AMS 14C Dating Laboratory, Institute of Physics and Astronomy, University of Aarhus, DK-8000 Aarhus C, Denmark
Keld Conradsen
Affiliation:
Department of Earth Sciences, University of Aarhus, DK-8000 Aarhus C, Denmark
Jan Heinemeier
Affiliation:
AMS 14C Dating Laboratory, Institute of Physics and Astronomy, University of Aarhus, DK-8000 Aarhus C, Denmark
K. L. Knudsen
Affiliation:
Department of Earth Sciences, University of Aarhus, DK-8000 Aarhus C, Denmark
H. L. Nielsen
Affiliation:
AMS 14C Dating Laboratory, Institute of Physics and Astronomy, University of Aarhus, DK-8000 Aarhus C, Denmark
Niels Rud
Affiliation:
AMS 14C Dating Laboratory, Institute of Physics and Astronomy, University of Aarhus, DK-8000 Aarhus C, Denmark
Á. E. Sveinbjörnsdóttir
Affiliation:
Science Institute, University of Iceland, Dunhagi 3, IS-107 Reykjavík, Iceland
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We report on 69 radiocarbon dates of mollusk shells and benthic foraminifera from the upper 132 m of the marine shelf sediments of the Skagen Core (220 m total length). The dated sequence covers the Late Glacial and the Holocene (from 15 ka bp to Recent). Sedimentation rates range from 1 to 70 m ka−1. The macrofossil shell dates follow a smooth curve constituting an age model for dating the sediments. The foraminiferal dates fall into two groups: those that agree exactly with the mollusk shells and those that deviate substantially, always being older than the shells by as much as 5 ka. One mixed foraminiferal sample consisted of members from both groups, and as a result, the age deviation of the sample turned out to be some weighted average. The data indicate that the age deviations are due to admixtures of reworked older foraminifera.

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Type
I. 14C in the Reconstruction of Past Environments
Information
Radiocarbon , Volume 37 , Issue 2 , 1995 , pp. 119 - 130
Copyright
Copyright © the Department of Geosciences, The University of Arizona 

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