49379
Title Of Article Chaper
Thorium-230/uranium-234 dating of travertine from the Bilzingsleben archaeological site
Title Of Journal Book
Nature (London)
Volume
284
Issue
5752
Pages
132-135
Language Of Text
English
Literature Type
Serial
Literature Level
Analytic
Abstract
The age of the fossil hominid and artifact-bearing travertine deposit at Bilzingsleben in the German Democratic Republic was dated, using the <sub>230</sub>Th-<sub>234</sub>U method, at ca. 228,000 years. The floral and faunal fossil assemblages are interglacial in character and indicate a depositional climate warmer than at present. The age and floral-faunal associations correlate the Bilzings-leben deposits with stage 7 of the marine oxygen isotope record and the penultimate interglacial observed in the European and North American speleothem records. -- AATA
pub_id
49379