Abstract
ABSTRACT
Karst environments preserve some of the best archives of past climate, vegetation, hydrology, anthropogenic impact, and landscape evolution providing that a reliable chronology can be established. Here we present an example of the system of the Plitvice Lakes (Dinaric karst, Croatia), which is characterized by intensive tufa and lake sediment formations. The radiocarbon dating method, combined with some other dating methods and various geochemical and isotope analyses, showed that the Plitvice Lakes system in the present form has existed for about 8000 years. Older tufa deposits were dated to warm interglacial periods. A long-term comprehensive multi-proxy study showed that all environmental compartments (atmosphere, various water bodies, soil, bedrock, DIC, terrestrial and aquatic biota, and of course various secondary carbonates) must be included in order to obtain trustworthy results.
Publisher
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Subject
General Earth and Planetary Sciences,Archeology
Reference56 articles.
1. Status report on the Zagreb Radiocarbon Laboratory – AMS and LSC results of VIRI intercomparison samples
2. Klimatska regionalizacija Hrvatske po W. Köppenu za standardno razdoblje 1961–1990. u odnosu na razdoblje 1931–1960 [Climatic regions of Croatia according to W. Köppen for 1961–1990 and 1931–1960 periods];Filipčić;Acta Geographica Croatica,1998
3. Isotope Composition of Precipitation, Groundwater, and Surface and Lake Waters from the Plitvice Lakes, Croatia
4. A review of tufa and travertine deposits of the world
5. Srdoč, D , Horvatinčić, N , Obelić, B , Krajcar, I , Sliepčević, A. 1985a. Procesi taloženja kalcita u krškim vodama s posebnim osvrtom na Plitvička jezera (Calcite deposition processes in karstwaters with special emphasis on the Plitvice Lakes, Yugoslavia). Carsus Iugoslaviae (Krš Jugoslavije) 11(4-6):101–204. In Croatian with English abstract.
Cited by
2 articles.
订阅此论文施引文献
订阅此论文施引文献，注册后可以免费订阅5篇论文的施引文献，订阅后可以查看论文全部施引文献