Magnetostratigraphic and uranium-series dating of fossiliferous cave sediments in Jinyuan Cave, Liaoning Province, northeast China

Cave sediments from Stump Cross Cave in northern England contain Pleistocene mammal remains. Uranium-series dating of calcium carbonate deposits closely associated with the fossiliferous horizons has established an absolute age of 83,000 ± 6000 yr B.P. for a faunal assemblage largely comprised of wolverines (Gulo gulo). This date lies firmly within the younger portion of oxygen-isotope stage 5. The occurrence of wolverines in the vicinity of Stump Cross Cave at ca. 83,000 yr B.P. indicates a significant climatic deterioration from ca. 120,000 yr B.P., when an Ipswichian interglacial fauna with hippopotamus was present in this part of northern England.

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Denudation chronology from cave and river terrace levels: the case of the Buchan Karst, southeastern Australia

Geological Magazine ◽

10.1017/s0016756800019245 ◽

1992 ◽

Vol 129 (3) ◽

pp. 307-317 ◽

Cited By ~ 18

Author(s):

J. A. Webb ◽

D. Fabel ◽

B. L. Finlayson ◽

M. Ellaway ◽

Li Shu ◽

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Keyword(s):

River Terrace ◽

Sea Level Changes ◽

Uranium Series ◽

Southeastern Australia ◽

River Terraces ◽

Cave Sediments ◽

Uranium Series Dating ◽

Active Tectonic ◽

History Of ◽

Karst Landscapes

AbstractDetailed mapping of surface and underground karst features at Buchan, in eastern Victoria, has shown that the three river terraces along the Buchan River can be correlated with three levels of epiphreatic development in the nearby caves. Each level represents a stillstand in the denudational history of the area. Uranium series dating of speleothems and palaeomagnetic studies of cave sediments indicate that all three stilistands are more than 730 ka old. The periods of incision separating the stillstands were probably the result of active tectonic uplift. This contrasts with some northern parts of the Southeastern Highlands, which have been stable since the Eocene. The overall amount of incision and uplift at Buchan is small, indicating that the majority of scarp retreat in this section of the highlands must have occurred earlier. The denudation history of the Buchan area over the last 730 ka has seen only 2–3 m of incision, despite the major climatic and sea-level changes that have occurred in that time. Whereas most karst landscapes in the Northern Hemisphere have been extensively modified during the late Pleistocene, the Buchan karst was little affected, and its geomorphology has an older origin.

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Radiometric dating of hillslope calcrete in the Negev Desert, Israel

South African Journal of Science ◽

10.1590/s0038-23532008000600025 ◽

2008 ◽

Vol 104 (11/12) ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

J.C. Vogel ◽

M.A. Geyh

Keyword(s):

Open System ◽

Negev Desert ◽

Radiometric Dating ◽

Jordan Valley ◽

Partial Recrystallization ◽

Uranium Series ◽

Uranium Series Dating

The radiometric dating of calcrete is often problematical because impurities and open system conditions affect the apparent ages obtained. By applying both radiocarbon and uranium-series dating to calcrete in colluvium, it is shown that such conditions can be identified. In correlation with the stratigraphy, it is found that partial recrystallization severely decreases the radiocarbon ages of the upslope and shallower samples further down, whereas incorporation of limestone fragments from bedrock significantly increases the apparent ages of some of the uranium-series samples. It is concluded that the hillslope calcrete at the study site near Sede Beker in the Negev Desert, Israel, mainly developed shortly after 40 kyr ago, at a time when the Jordan Valley was being inundated to form the fossil Lake Lisan. Since their formation would have required higher rainfall than today, the results provide further evidence that the whole region was experiencing an increase in precipitation.

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Oldest cave art found in Sulawesi

Science Advances ◽

10.1126/sciadv.abd4648 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 7 (3) ◽

pp. eabd4648

Author(s):

Adam Brumm ◽

Adhi Agus Oktaviana ◽

Basran Burhan ◽

Budianto Hakim ◽

Rustan Lebe ◽

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Keyword(s):

Rock Art ◽

Karst Area ◽

Uranium Series ◽

Island Southeast Asia ◽

South Sulawesi ◽

Figurative Painting ◽

Uranium Series Dating ◽

Cave Paintings ◽

Minimum Age ◽

Cave Art

Indonesia harbors some of the oldest known surviving cave art. Previously, the earliest dated rock art from this region was a figurative painting of a Sulawesi warty pig (Sus celebensis). This image from Leang Bulu’ Sipong 4 in the limestone karsts of Maros-Pangkep, South Sulawesi, was created at least 43,900 years ago (43.9 ka) based on Uranium-series dating. Here, we report the Uranium-series dating of two figurative cave paintings of Sulawesi warty pigs recently discovered in the same karst area. The oldest, with a minimum age of 45.5 ka, is from Leang Tedongnge. The second image, from Leang Balangajia 1, dates to at least 32 ka. To our knowledge, the animal painting from Leang Tedongnge is the earliest known representational work of art in the world. There is no reason to suppose, however, that this early rock art is a unique example in Island Southeast Asia or the wider region.

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Direct dating of Pleistocene stegodon from Timor Island, East Nusa Tenggara

PeerJ ◽

10.7717/peerj.1788 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 4 ◽

pp. e1788 ◽

Cited By ~ 17

Author(s):

Julien Louys ◽

Gilbert J. Price ◽

Sue O’Connor

Keyword(s):

Environmental Changes ◽

Southeast Asian ◽

Oceanic Islands ◽

Current Data ◽

Island Population ◽

Modern Humans ◽

Uranium Series ◽

Uranium Series Dating

Stegodons are a commonly recovered extinct proboscidean (elephants and allies) from the Pleistocene record of Southeast Asian oceanic islands. Estimates on when stegodons arrived on individual islands and the timings of their extinctions are poorly constrained due to few reported direct geochronological analyses of their remains. Here we report on uranium-series dating of a stegodon tusk recovered from the Ainaro Gravels of Timor. The six dates obtained indicate the local presence of stegodons in Timor at or before 130 ka, significantly pre-dating the earliest evidence of humans on the island. On the basis of current data, we find no evidence for significant environmental changes or the presence of modern humans in the region during that time. Thus, we do not consider either of these factors to have contributed significantly to their extinction. In the absence of these, we propose that their extinction was possibly the result of long-term demographic and genetic declines associated with an isolated island population.

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