14C, 210Pb and Bulk Peat Composition as Crucial Proxies for the Reconstruction of Human Impact in a Peat Bog From Southern Poland

Authors:
Barbara Fiałkiewicz –Kozieł, Natalia Piotrowska, Piotr Kołaczek, Adam Michczyński, Barbara Sensuła, Michał Woszczyk, Edyta Łokas, Przemysław Wachniew

Book:
Proceedings of the 14th International Peat Congress

Venue:
Stockholm

Keywords:
age-depth-model-c, ns-human-activity

Documentfile:
Fialkiewicz –Koziel et al 2012: 14C, 210Pb and Bulk Peat Composition as Crucial Proxies for the Reconstruction of Human Impact i

Summary:

Theme I.  Inventory, stratigraphy and conservation of mires and peatlands

SUMMARY

A detailed age model of peatland located in southern Poland, was constructed using both ²¹⁰Pb and ¹⁴C measurements, further compared with pollen diagrams. Described peatland represent two thousand years of paleoecological and geochemical changes. TOC/N and bulk density correlate with the results of palynological studies, and reflect external forcing on peat formation process, including land-use changes, water level fluctuations. Main historical events linked to anthropogenic and climatic changes are recorded in a peatbog.