In:
Frontiers in Earth Science, Frontiers Media SA, Vol. 8 ( 2021-1-15)
Kurzfassung:
Loess-paleosol sequences (LPSs) are important terrestrial archives of paleoenvironmental and paleoclimatic information. One of the main obstacles for the investigation and interpretation of these archives is the uncertainty of their age-depth relationship. In this study, four different dating techniques were applied to the Late Pleistocene to Holocene LPS Balta Alba Kurgan (Romania) in order to achieve a robust chronology. Luminescence dating includes analysis of different grain-size fractions of both quartz and potassium feldspar and the best results are obtained using fine-grained quartz blue‐stimulated and polymineral post-infrared infrared-stimulated luminescence measurements. Radiocarbon ( 14 C) dating is based on the analysis of bulk organic carbon (OC) and compound-specific radiocarbon analysis (CSRA). Bulk OC and leaf wax-derived n -alkane 14 C ages provide reliable age constraints for the past c. 25–27 kyr. CSRA reveals post-depositional incorporation of roots and microbial OC into the LPS limiting the applicability of 14 C dating in older parts of the sequence. Magnetic stratigraphy data reveal good correlation of magnetic susceptibility and the relative paleointensity of the Earth’s magnetic field with one another as well as reference records and regional data. In contrast, the application of paleomagnetic secular variation stratigraphy is limited by a lack of regional reference data. The identification of the Campanian Ignimbrite/Y-5 tephra layer in the outcrop provides an independent time marker against which results from the other dating methods have been tested. The most accurate age constraints from each method are used for two Bayesian age-depth modeling approaches. The systematic comparison of the individual results exemplifies the advantages and disadvantages of the respective methods. Taken as a whole, the two age-depth models agree very well, our study also demonstrates that the multi-method approach can improve the accuracy and precision of dating loess sequences.
Materialart:
Online-Ressource
ISSN:
2296-6463
DOI:
10.3389/feart.2020.598448
DOI:
10.3389/feart.2020.598448.s001
DOI:
10.3389/feart.2020.598448.s002
DOI:
10.3389/feart.2020.598448.s003
DOI:
10.3389/feart.2020.598448.s004
DOI:
10.3389/feart.2020.598448.s005
DOI:
10.3389/feart.2020.598448.s006
Sprache:
Unbekannt
Verlag:
Frontiers Media SA
Publikationsdatum:
2021
ZDB Id:
2741235-0