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14C and 18O in Siberian Syngenetic Ice-Wedge Complexes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2016

Yurij K. Vasil'Chuk  and
Alla C. Vasil'Chuk
Yurij K. Vasil'Chuk
Affiliation:
Department of Cryolithology and Glaciology and Laboratory of Regional Engineering Geology, Moscow State University, Vorob'yovy Gory, 119899 Moscow, Russia and The Theoretical Problems Department, Russian Academy of Sciences, Denezhnyi pereulok, 12, 121002 Moscow, Russia
Alla C. Vasil'Chuk
Affiliation:
Department of Cryolithology and Glaciology and Laboratory of Regional Engineering Geology, Moscow State University, Vorob'yovy Gory, 119899 Moscow, Russia and The Theoretical Problems Department, Russian Academy of Sciences, Denezhnyi pereulok, 12, 121002 Moscow, Russia
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We discuss the possibility of dating ice wedges by the radiocarbon method. We show as an example the Seyaha, Kular and Zelyony Mys ice wedge complexes, and investigated various organic materials from permafrost sediments. We show that the reliability of dating 18O variations from ice wedges can be evaluated by comparison of different organic materials from host sediments in the ice wedge cross sections.

Type
Part 2: Applications
Information
Radiocarbon , Volume 40 , Issue 2: 16th International Radiocarbon Conference June 16-20, 1997 Part 2: Applications, Conference Editors: Willem G. Mook Johannes van der Plicht , 1997 , pp. 883 - 893
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