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TI Age modelling of late Quaternary marine sequences in the Adriatic: towards improved precision and accuracy using volcanic event stratigraphy
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AF Lowe, John J.
   Blockley, Simon
   TRINCARDI, Fabio
   ASIOLI, Alessandra
   CATTANEO, Antonio
   Matthews, I. P.
   Pollard, M.
   Wulf, S.
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C1 Department of Geography, Centre for Quaternary Research, Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham, Surrey, TW20 0EX, UK
   Istituto di Scienze Marine (C.N.R.), Sezione di Geologia Marina, via Gobetti 101, 40129 Bologna, Italy
   Istituto di Geoscienze e Georisorse (C.N.R.), Sezione di Padova, C.so Garibaldi 37, 35137 Padova, Italy
   Research Laboratory for Archaeology, University of Oxford, Dyson Perrins Building, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3QY, UK
   GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam, Section 3.3, Climate Dynamics and Sediments, Telegrafenberg, D-14473 Potsdam, Germany
C2 UNIV LONDON, UK
   CNR, ITALY
   CNR, ITALY
   UNIV OXFORD, UK
   GEOF ZENT POSTDAM, GERMANY
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IF 1.684
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UR https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00039/15025/12429.pdf
LA English
DT Article
DE ;Radiocarbon-based age models;Tephrochronology;Volcanic event stratigraphy;Lago Monticchio record;Bayesian method;WDS geochemical data;Discriminant function analysis (DFA)
AB The first part of this paper presents a review of the problems that constrain the reliability of radiocarbon-based age models with particular focus on those used to underpin marine records. The reasons why radiocarbon data-sets need to be much more comprehensive than has been the norm hitherto, and why age models should be based on calibrated data only, are outlined. The complexity of the probability structure of calibrated radiocarbon data and the advantages of a Bayesian statistical approach for constructing calibrated age models are illustrated. The second part of the paper tests the potential for reducing the uncertainties that constrain radiocarbon-based age models using tephrostratigraphy. Fine (distal) ash layers of Holocene age preserved in Adriatic prodelta sediments are analysed geochemically and compared to tephras preserved in the Lago Grande di Monticchio site in southern Italy. The Monticchio tephras have been dated both by radiocarbon and varve chronology. The importance of basing such comparisons on standardised geochemical and robust statistical procedures is stressed. In this instance, both the Adriatic and Monticchio geochemical measurements are based on wavelength dispersive spectrometry, while discriminant function analysis is employed for statistical comparisons. Using this approach, the ages of some of the Adriatic marine ash layers could be estimated in Monticchio varve years, circumventing some of the uncertainty of radiocarbon-based age models introduced by marine reservoir effects. Fine (distal) ash layers are more widespread and better preserved in Mediterranean marine sequences than realised hitherto and may offer much wider potential for refining the dating and correlation of Mediterranean marine sequences as well as marine-land correlations.
PY 2007
SO Continental Shelf Research
SN 0278-4343
PU Elsevier
VL 27
IS 3-4
BP 560
EP 582
DI doi:10.1016/j.csr.2005.12.017
ID 15025
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