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The First Dated Eemian Lacustrine Deposit in Romania

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Bogdan Petroniu Onac,
Leif Björkman,
Svante Björck,
Octavian Clichici,
Tudor Tamas,
David Peate and
Barbara Wohlfarth
Bogdan Petroniu Onac
Affiliation:
Group for Quaternary Research, Department of Mineralogy, Babes-Bolyai University, Kogalniceanu 1, Cluj, 3400, Romania, E-mail: bonac@bioge.ubbcluj.ro
Leif Björkman
Affiliation:
Department of Quaternary Geology, Lund University, Tornavägen 13, Lund, S-223-63, Sweden
Svante Björck
Affiliation:
Department of Quaternary Geology, Lund University, Tornavägen 13, Lund, S-223-63, Sweden
Octavian Clichici
Affiliation:
Department of Geology, Babes-Bolyai University, Kogalniceanu 1, Cluj, 3400, Romania
Tudor Tamas
Affiliation:
Group for Quaternary Research, Department of Mineralogy, Babes-Bolyai University, Kogalniceanu 1, Cluj, 3400, Romania
David Peate
Affiliation:
Danish Lithosphere Center, Øster Voldgade 10 L, Copenhagen, DK-1350, Denmark
Barbara Wohlfarth
Affiliation:
Department of Quaternary Geology, Lund University, Tornavägen 13, Lund, S-223-63, Sweden
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Abstract

A complex interglacial sequence of lacustrine sediments has been found near the village of Turbuta in NW Romania. Mollusk, plant macrofossil, and pollen analyses reflect climatic and environmental changes around the last interglacial climatic optimum. U-Th TIMS dating of snails strongly indicates an Eemian age of the organic sediments.

Keywords

last interglacialpollen, molluscU-Th TIMS datingICP-MSTurbuta, Romania

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Quaternary Research , Volume 56 , Issue 1 , July 2001, pp. 62 - 65
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University of Washington

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