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Late Glacial Atmospheric Radiocarbon Variations Recorded in Scots Pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) Wood from KwiatkÓw, Central Poland

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 September 2018

Marek Krąpiec*
Affiliation:
AGH University of Science and Technology, Faculty of Geology, Geophysics and Environmental Protection, Kraków, Poland
Danuta J Michczyńska
Affiliation:
Silesian University of Technology, Institute of Physics–CSE, Gliwice, Poland
Adam Michczyński
Affiliation:
Silesian University of Technology, Institute of Physics–CSE, Gliwice, Poland
Natalia Piotrowska
Affiliation:
Silesian University of Technology, Institute of Physics–CSE, Gliwice, Poland
Tomasz Goslar
Affiliation:
Faculty of Physics, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland Poznań Radiocarbon Laboratory, Foundation of the A. Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland
Elżbieta Szychowska-Krąpiec
Affiliation:
AGH University of Science and Technology, Faculty of Geology, Geophysics and Environmental Protection, Kraków, Poland
*
*Corresponding author. Email: [email protected].

Abstract

Our project aimed to construct a Scots Pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) chronology for part of the Late Glacial and reconstruct changes in the 14C concentrations during this period. Kwiatków (Kolska Basin, central Poland) proved to be very prospective site, in which wood from the end of Allerød was recognized. A level of organic deposits with so-called fossil forest was encountered within the late-Vistulian terrace of the low valley of the Warta river. Dendrochronological analysis of over 267 samples complying to the requirements of the method allowed, at the present stage of the research, to construct a chronology spanning 265 yr. Fifty-two samples (5 consecutive rings each) were subjected to α-cellulose extraction and 14C measurements. Ninety-six results and the wiggle-matching technique anchor the chronology to the period 13,821–13,561 cal BP (Acomb=141.6%) according to the D_Sequence procedure and the IntCal13 calibration curve or to 13,800–13,540 cal BP according to the wiggle-matching technique using the χ2 test and raw data, i.e. the Heidelberg tree-ring sequence.

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Atmosphere
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© 2018 by the Arizona Board of Regents on behalf of the University of Arizona 

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