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Stable Isotopes of Holocene Calcareous Tufa in Southern Poland as Paleoclimatic Indicators

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Anna Pazdur ,
Mieczyslaw F. Pazdur ,
Leszek Starkel  and
Joachim Szulc
Anna Pazdur
Affiliation:
Radiocarbon Laboratory, Institute of Physics, Silesian Technical University, Krzywoustego 2, PL-44-100 Gliwice, Poland
Mieczyslaw F. Pazdur
Affiliation:
Radiocarbon Laboratory, Institute of Physics, Silesian Technical University, Krzywoustego 2, PL-44-100 Gliwice, Poland
Leszek Starkel
Affiliation:
Department of Geomorphology and Hydrology of Mountains and Uplands, Institute of Geography and Spatial Organisation, Polish Academy of Sciences, Sw Jana 22, PL-31-018 Cracow, Poland
Joachim Szulc
Affiliation:
Institute of Geological Sciences, Jagellonian University, Oleandry 2a, PL-30-056 Cracow, Poland
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Abstract

The isotopic composition of oxygen in freshwater calcareous tufa seems to be a sensitive indicator of past climatic changes. Results of measurements of δc18O and δc13C in tufa samples dated with the 14C method are used to reconstruct Holocene climatic changes in southern Poland. Values of δc18O obtained on tufa samples from four sites (Raclawka, Rzerzuŝnia, Trzebienice, Sieradowice) representing different hydrodynamic conditions of tufa sedimentation seem to form a selfconsistent series. These values, with some simplifying assumptions concerning the course of tufa sedimentation, were therefore used to estimate mean annual temperatures in the interval ca. 9500-2000 yr B.P. When the resulting curve of thermal changes in southern Poland is compared with changes of deposition and erosion of tuffaceous sediments and with results of other methods of reconstruction of paleoclimate in central Europe, a reasonable agreement among the different specific methods is seen.

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Quaternary Research , Volume 30 , Issue 2 , September 1988 , pp. 177 - 189
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University of Washington

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