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AMS 14C Dating on the Fossvogur Sediments, Iceland

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2016

G J Andersen ,
J A N Heinemeier ,
H L Nielsen ,
Niels Rud ,
M S Thomsen ,
Sigfús Johnsen ,
Árný Sveinbjörnsdóttir  and
Árni Hjartarson
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Several new AMS 14C dates on shells from the Fossvogur sea sediments in southern Iceland are reported. Up till now, researchers have assumed that the Fossvogur sediments formed during the last interglacial period (Eem), some 100,000 years ago. However, a recent 14C determination from this location yielded an age of ca 11,000 yr. Because of the importance of these sediments for the Quaternary chronology of Iceland, further sampling for 14C dating was subsequently initiated. The present results on several shell samples collected from the Fossvogur layers strongly indicate that these sediments were formed during the warm Allerød period toward the end of the last glaciation.

Type
II. Carbon Cycle in the Environment
Information
Radiocarbon , Volume 31 , Issue 3: June 20-25, 1988 Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia , 1989 , pp. 592 - 600
Copyright
Copyright © The American Journal of Science 

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