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Reference Sections of Late‒Middle Neopleistocene Friable Sediments in Kamchatka: Present-Day State and Issue of Age, and Perspectives of Study

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Reference sections of friable sediments in central Kamchatka are studied and their present-day state is described. Previous concepts of the Middle Pleistocene age of these sediments are critically examined. Radiocarbon dates performed in the 1980s‒1990s by researchers at the Geological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, are revised. It is shown that some (oldest) part of dates did not pass the quality check. Results of the new (2016‒2017) radiocarbon dating agree well with the data accomplished previously and supported later by revision. Based on the combined databank with 65 determinations of different species of the buried organic material and mammal bones, the Late Pleistocene age of sediments is suggested. A new interpretation is proposed for the formation setting of some sequences in the studied sections.

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ACKOWLEDGMENTS

The authors are grateful to A.D. Babansky, V.V. Bol’shakova, O.A. Braitseva, A.A. Gorbach, N.E. Zaretskaya, and V.V. Ponomareva; workers of the Foundation “Kamchatka Regional United Museum” (Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky) and its Mil’kovo Branch; and the Staff of the House of Children’s Crafts (Mil’kovo Settlement) for the comprehensive assistance in work.

This work was accomplished under the State Task of GIN RAN (project no. 0135-2018-0037 “Revision of Old Radiocarbon Dates and Gathering of New Dates), with the financial support of the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences (program no. 15 “Paleontological Studies”) and the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (project no 17-05-00352a “Examination of Literature and Maps, Palynological Studies, Analysis of the Obtained Data, and Preparation of the Paper”).

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    M. M. Pevzner, R. I. Nechushkin & T. D. Karimov

  2. Museum of Nature, Cherepovets Museum Association, Sovetskii pr. 30a, 162600, Cherepovets, Russia

    O. V. Yashina

  3. Institute for Problems of Ecology and Evolution, Russian Academy of Sciences, Leninskii pr. 33, 119071, Moscow, Russia

    O. I. Smyshlyaeva

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    T. D. Karimov

  5. Kamchatgeologiya, Central Kamchatka Geoexploration Expedition, 684300, Mil’kovo, Kamchatka, Russia

    O. Yu. Rozhdestvensky

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Pevzner, M.M., Yashina, O.V., Smyshlyaeva, O.I. et al. Reference Sections of Late‒Middle Neopleistocene Friable Sediments in Kamchatka: Present-Day State and Issue of Age, and Perspectives of Study. Lithol Miner Resour 54, 119–144 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0024490218060093

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