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Vesicular-arbuscular mycorrizae for dating multiple paleosols and carbon loss rate determination

Holmqvist, Johan LU and Schlyter, P (2000) In Geoderma 97(1-2). p.125-133
Abstract
A promising technique for dating paleosols is reported based on radiocarbon (C-14) dating of asexual spores from vesicular-arbuscular mycorrizae (VAM). The soils are dispersed in water and some 6000-8000 spores separated by hand picking under a low power microscope. The dried spores are then dated by accelerator mass spectroscopy (AMS). A chronosequense of closely superimposed paleosols from an arctic/alpine meadow soil, northern Sweden, was dated and the long-term (i.e., over a millennium time-span) organic carbon loss rate determined. A very low carbon loss rate was obtained, 4.7 x 10(-4) +/- 9.2 x 10(-5) year(-1). It is argued that this approach is likely to give a better estimate for long-term loss than litter-bag studies covering a... (More)
A promising technique for dating paleosols is reported based on radiocarbon (C-14) dating of asexual spores from vesicular-arbuscular mycorrizae (VAM). The soils are dispersed in water and some 6000-8000 spores separated by hand picking under a low power microscope. The dried spores are then dated by accelerator mass spectroscopy (AMS). A chronosequense of closely superimposed paleosols from an arctic/alpine meadow soil, northern Sweden, was dated and the long-term (i.e., over a millennium time-span) organic carbon loss rate determined. A very low carbon loss rate was obtained, 4.7 x 10(-4) +/- 9.2 x 10(-5) year(-1). It is argued that this approach is likely to give a better estimate for long-term loss than litter-bag studies covering a couple of decades. (C) 2000 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved. (Less)
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degradation, organic carbon, paleosols, radiocarbon dating, soil
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Geoderma
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97
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125 - 133
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Elsevier
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0016-7061
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10.1016/S0016-7061(00)00030-6
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  abstract     = {{A promising technique for dating paleosols is reported based on radiocarbon (C-14) dating of asexual spores from vesicular-arbuscular mycorrizae (VAM). The soils are dispersed in water and some 6000-8000 spores separated by hand picking under a low power microscope. The dried spores are then dated by accelerator mass spectroscopy (AMS). A chronosequense of closely superimposed paleosols from an arctic/alpine meadow soil, northern Sweden, was dated and the long-term (i.e., over a millennium time-span) organic carbon loss rate determined. A very low carbon loss rate was obtained, 4.7 x 10(-4) +/- 9.2 x 10(-5) year(-1). It is argued that this approach is likely to give a better estimate for long-term loss than litter-bag studies covering a couple of decades. (C) 2000 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.}},
  author       = {{Holmqvist, Johan and Schlyter, P}},
  issn         = {{0016-7061}},
  keywords     = {{degradation; organic carbon; paleosols; radiocarbon dating; soil}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  number       = {{1-2}},
  pages        = {{125--133}},
  publisher    = {{Elsevier}},
  series       = {{Geoderma}},
  title        = {{Vesicular-arbuscular mycorrizae for dating multiple paleosols and carbon loss rate determination}},
  url          = {{http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0016-7061(00)00030-6}},
  doi          = {{10.1016/S0016-7061(00)00030-6}},
  volume       = {{97}},
  year         = {{2000}},
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