Issue Date
1993-01-01Keywords
pedogenesishumus
paleogeography
Holocene
soils
Pleistocene
organic compounds
organic materials
Cenozoic
Quaternary
C 14
carbon
dates
isotopes
radioactive isotopes
absolute age
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Chichagova, O. A., & Cherkinsky, A. E. (1993). Problems in radiocarbon dating of soils. Radiocarbon, 35(3), 351-362.Journal
RadiocarbonAdditional Links
http://radiocarbon.webhost.uits.arizona.edu/Abstract
We discuss our progress in three principal applications of 14C dating of recent and fossil soils: 1) new methods; 2) problems of interpreting 14C soil data (e.g.,14C age of soils, age of soils, duration of humus formation, rate of carbon cycling); and 3) 14C analysis of soil organic matter (OM) in pedology and paleogeography (e.g., soil genesis and evolution, humus formation and OM metamorphosis, geochronology and stratigraphy of Late Pleistocene and Holocene sediments). We suggest exploring the above issues in the analysis of each 14C profile in conjunction with paleogeographical data, and by simulation of the carbon cycle in each type of profile.Type
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enISSN
0033-8222ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1017/S0033822200060355