Radiocarbon dating of organic-rich deposits: Difficulties of paleogeographical interpretations in highlands of Russian Altai

• Autorzy: Nepop R.K. , Agatova A.R. , Bronnikova M.A. , Zazovskaya E.P. , Ovchinnikov I.YU. , Moska P.

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DOI

10.2478/geochr-2020-0018

• Konferencja: Chronostratigraphy of Late Glacial aeolian activity in SW Poland – A case study from the Niemodlin Plateau
• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

EN

The high mountainous southeastern part of Russian Altai is characterized by complicated sedimentation history. As a result of tectonic movements, Paleogene, Neogene, and even more old Carboniferous and Jurassic organicrich deposits had been partly uplifted and exhumed on the ridge’s slopes, where during the Pleistocene, they were affected by various exogenous processes including glaciation, glacio-fluvial erosion, winnowing activity of ice-dammed lakes, sliding during lake-draining events, followed by further intensive Holocene erosion, pedogenesis, and permafrost formation/degradation. Remobilized ancient organic matter had been involved into geomorphic and pedogenesis processes and affected the results of radiocarbon dating. Numerous radiocarbon ages obtained revealed several typical problems in interpretation of dating results, which was confirmed by multidisciplinary investigations of associated sediments in a wider regional context. This article presents a discussion on obtained apparent radiocarbon dates of organic material from ten sections of the SE Altai. In addition to radiocarbon analysis, in each case multidisciplinary study was carried out in order to properly interpret obtained dates, as well as to explain the inability of directly using apparent 14C ages as a geochronological basis for paleogeographical reconstruction. The analysis presented is of vital importance for establishing the chronology of formation of large ice-dammed lakes and their cataclysmic draining; revealing chronology and paleoenvironmental conditions of pedogenesis in the highlands of the SE Altai; and estimating the range and magnitude of the tectonically driven topography rebuilding in the post-Neogene time.

Słowa kluczowe

EN

radiocarbon dating; pedogenesis; ice-dammed lake; outburst floods; paleogeographical reconstruction; Russian Altai

• Wydawca: De Gruyter
• Czasopismo: Geochronometria
• Rocznik: 2020
• Tom: Vol. 47, no.1
• Strony: 138--153
• Opis fizyczny: Bibliogr. 49 poz., rys.

Twórcy

autor

Nepop R.K.

• Institute of Geology and Mineralogy SB RAS, Koptyuga av., 3, 630090 Novosibirsk, Russia
• Ural Federal University, Mira str., 19, 620002 Yekaterinburg, Russia

autor

Agatova A.R.

• Institute of Geology and Mineralogy SB RAS, Koptyuga av., 3, 630090 Novosibirsk, Russia
• Ural Federal University, Mira str., 19, 620002 Yekaterinburg, Russia

autor

Bronnikova M.A.

• Institute of Geography RAS, Staromonetny str., 29, 119017 Moscow, Russia

autor

Zazovskaya E.P.

• Institute of Geography RAS, Staromonetny str., 29, 119017 Moscow, Russia

autor

Ovchinnikov I.YU.

• Institute of Geology and Mineralogy SB RAS, Koptyuga av., 3, 630090 Novosibirsk, Russia

autor

Moska P.

• Institute of Physics, Silesian University of Technology, Gliwice, Poland

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