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Radiocarbon-Dated Vegetal Remains from the Cave Ice Deposits of Velebit Mountain, Croatia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 November 2018

Z Kern ,
N Bočić  and
Gy Sipos
Z Kern*
Affiliation:
Institute for Geological and Geochemical Research, Research Centre for Astronomy and Earth Sciences, MTA, Budaörsi út 45, Budapest H-1112, Hungary Isotope Climatology and Environmental Research Centre (ICER), MTA ATOMKI, Bem tér 18/c, Debrecen, Hungary
N Bočić
Affiliation:
University of Zagreb, Faculty of Science, Department of Geography, Marulićev trg 19/II Zagreb10000, Croatia
Gy Sipos
Affiliation:
University of Szeged, Department of Physical Geography and Geoinformatics, Geochronology Research Group, Egyetem utca 2-6, Szeged H-6722, Hungary
*
*Corresponding author. Email: kern.zoltan@csfk.mta.hu.
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Abstract

Organic material and a few tree trunks have been recovered from the shrinking ice deposits of Velebit Mountain, Croatia. Ten radiocarbon (14C) dates, seven new measurements and three recalibrated ones, from three cave ice deposits were evaluated. The new data argue for the preservation of a ~1000-yr-old deposit in the Kugina Ice Cave and a <500-yr-old accumulation in the Ledena Pit. A 14C age suggests that the ice in the lower section of Vukušić cave ice deposit is very likely older than 3500 yr. The work is in progress to verify this suggestion. Evaluation of the temporal distribution of the calibrated ages of the 14C-dated vegetal remains allowed constraining the accumulation and ablation history of cave ice in the northern and central Velebit. Periods lacking vegetal remains in these cave ice deposits (before the 11th century and in the 15th century) tend to match with similar patterns from other cave ice deposits from the Eastern Alps and the Swiss Jura Mountains, suggesting large-scale coherence regulating European cave ice mass balance changes over the past ~1200 yr.

Keywords

cave iceDinaridesHoloceneice accumulation gapsspeleologyVelebit Mountain
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Radiocarbon , Volume 60 , Special Issue 5: 2nd Radiocarbon in the Environment Conference, Debrecen, Hungary, July 3–7, 2017 Part 2 of 2 and Radiocarbon & Diet 2 International Conference Aarhus, Denmark, June 20–23, 2017 , October 2018 , pp. 1391 - 1402
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Selected Papers from the 2nd Radiocarbon in the Environment Conference, Debrecen, Hungary, 3–7 July 2017

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