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Radiocarbon Chronology of the DSDDP Core at the Deepest Floor of the Dead Sea

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 April 2017

Hiroyuki Kitagawa ,
Mordechai Stein ,
Steven L Goldstein ,
Toshio Nakamura ,
Boaz Lazar  and
DSDDP Scientific Party
Hiroyuki Kitagawa*
Affiliation:
Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Nagoya University, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya 464-8601, Japan Institute for Space-Earth Environmental Research (ISEE), Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan
Mordechai Stein
Affiliation:
Geological Survey of Israel, 30 Malkhe Israel St., Jerusalem 95501, Israel
Steven L Goldstein
Affiliation:
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory and Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Columbia University, 61 Route 9W, Palisades, NY 10964, USA
Toshio Nakamura
Affiliation:
Institute for Space-Earth Environmental Research (ISEE), Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan
Boaz Lazar
Affiliation:
The Fredy and Nadine Hermann Institute of Earth Sciences, The Hebrew University, Edmond J. Safra Campus, Jerusalem 91904, Israel
DSDDP Scientific Party
Affiliation:
The complete list of scientists involved in the DSDDP can be found at http://www.icdp-online.org
*
*Corresponding author. Email: hiroyuki.kitagawa@nagoya-u.jp.
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Abstract

This study establishes the chronological framework of the sedimentary sequence deposited Dead Sea, ICDP 5017-1, Radiocarbon chronology during the past 50 ka at the deepest part of the Dead Sea (the ICDP 5017-1 site), which was recovered by the Dead Sea Deep Drilling Project (DSDDP) under the auspices of the International Continental Scientific Drilling Program (ICDP). The age-depth model is constructed using 38 14C dates of terrestrial plant remains in a composite 150-m-long profile, generated by anchoring 32 marker layers identified in five cores. The sedimentary records at the ICDP 5017-1 site fills gaps in those obtained from the exposed sections at the high margins of the lake, particularly in times of lake-level retreat, and allows for a high-resolution comparison between the lake’s margins and deepest floor.

Keywords

DSDDPradiocarbon chronologyDead SeaICDP 5017-1
Type
14C as a Tracer of Past or Present Continental Environment
Information
Radiocarbon , Volume 59 , Special Issue 2: Proceedings of the 22nd International Radiocarbon Conference (Part 1 of 2) , April 2017 , pp. 383 - 394
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© 2017 by the Arizona Board of Regents on behalf of the University of Arizona 

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Footnotes

Selected Papers from the 2015 Radiocarbon Conference, Dakar, Senegal, 16–20 November 2015

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