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14C Dating of Late Pleistocene–Holocene Events on Kunashir Island, Kuril Islands

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2016

V. B. Bazarova ,
N. G. Razjigaeva ,
T. A. Grebennikova ,
L. A. Ganzey ,
L. M. Mokhova ,
A. M. Korotky  and
L. D. Sulerzhitsky
V. B. Bazarova
Affiliation:
Pacific Institute of Geography, Far East Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences Radio Street 7, Vladivostok 690041, Russia
N. G. Razjigaeva
Affiliation:
Pacific Institute of Geography, Far East Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences Radio Street 7, Vladivostok 690041, Russia
T. A. Grebennikova
Affiliation:
Pacific Institute of Geography, Far East Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences Radio Street 7, Vladivostok 690041, Russia
L. A. Ganzey
Affiliation:
Pacific Institute of Geography, Far East Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences Radio Street 7, Vladivostok 690041, Russia
L. M. Mokhova
Affiliation:
Pacific Institute of Geography, Far East Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences Radio Street 7, Vladivostok 690041, Russia
A. M. Korotky
Affiliation:
Pacific Institute of Geography, Far East Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences Radio Street 7, Vladivostok 690041, Russia
L. D. Sulerzhitsky
Affiliation:
Pacific Institute of Geography, Far East Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences Radio Street 7, Vladivostok 690041, Russia
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Kunashir Island is a very important site for paleoenvironmental reconstructions. Until recently, very little information on Quaternary deposits was available. We studied the environmental evolution of this oceanic island under the influence of geomorphological processes, volcanism and strong marine currents. This paper presents new data that allow a detailed reconstruction of the environmental development of Kunashir Island during the Late Pleistocene–Holocene, based on ca. 80 radiocarbon dates and diatom, pollen and sedimentological data. The vegetation development reflects climate changes and warm/cold current migrations.

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. 775 - 780
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Copyright © The American Journal of Science 

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