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Environmental

Environmental

Sedimentary records containing information about past climate and environmental conditions require precise dating if they are to:

  1. provide precise estimates of the date of climatic/environmental events
  2. allow the relative timing between different records to be reconstructed.

In order to provide precise estimates of the date of climatic/environmental events careful selection of samples and an understanding of the taphonomy of the samples and relationship to the event of interest being dated is required.

For more information see:
- Chiverell et al 2008
- Foster et al 2008

By using a Bayesian approach, information from a variety of sources such as radiocarbon measurements, OSL measurements, and relative dating (stratigraphy, tephra), can be combined to produce age-depth models for a range of chronological sequences.

We have been involved in a number of environmental projects:

Geomorphology

Ribble Valley [my web page]
Swale-Ure
Suffolk Rivers

Palaeoclimatic
Raised Mires [my web page]

Environmental