Towards a new chronostratigraphic method based on the marine sediment radioactivity variation

Citation
I. Liritzis et al., Towards a new chronostratigraphic method based on the marine sediment radioactivity variation, J COAST RES, 15(4), 1999, pp. 958-965
Citations number
30
Categorie Soggetti
Environment/Ecology
Journal title
JOURNAL OF COASTAL RESEARCH
ISSN journal
07490208 → ACNP
Volume
15
Issue
4
Year of publication
1999
Pages
958 - 965
Database
ISI
SICI code
0749-0208(199923)15:4<958:TANCMB>2.0.ZU;2-7
Abstract
Sediment radioactivity (alpha and beta particle counting) from six cores fr om the Aegean and Ionian seas shows apparent variation identified with cert ain palaeoclimatic features during the Holocene and the last glaciation. Th e discussion of the radioactivity variation, the dating of the cores, the e stimated sedimentation rates, and the palaeoclimatic recognition, is corrob orated by the geotechnical properties of the sediments, some AMS C-14 dates , core intercomparison, and correlations with proxy climatic data.