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U/Th dating of Quaternary travertines at the middle River Llobregat (NE Iberian Peninsula, Nortwestern Mediterranean). Correlation with sea-level changes

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dc.creator Luque, J. A.
dc.creator Julià Brugués, Ramón
dc.date 2007-12-03T15:59:22Z
dc.date 2007-12-03T15:59:22Z
dc.date 2007
dc.date.accessioned 2017-01-31T00:59:18Z
dc.date.available 2017-01-31T00:59:18Z
dc.identifier Geologica Acta 5(1): 109-117 (2007)
dc.identifier 1695-6133
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/10261/2487
dc.identifier.uri http://dspace.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/10261/2487
dc.description The dating of the fluvial terraces of the middle River Llobregat enabled one to establish a correlation between the sedimentation episodes in continental zones and in neighbouring deltaic and coastal areas in the NE Iberian continental margin. The fluvial Terraces 4 (+85-95 m above river level) and 3 (+55-65 m above river level) are made up by or include travertines, which were deposited around 350,000 and 111,000 years ago, respectively. These radiometric ages correspond to two high sea level periods: the Eemian interglacial (isotopic stage 5e) and the interglacial related to isotopic stage 9. However, other travertine units in the valley, such as the Can Tobella staggered cascade travertines, were formed during the Holocene, probably due to hydrothermal spring activity related to the tectonic contact between the Catalan Coastal Ranges and the Ebro Basin.
dc.description We are indebted to Dr. Ferran Colombo who helped in the fieldwork and provided useful comments. We also acknowledge the help of Ana Maria Luque during the fieldwork. We should like to thank Graciela Monzón (Institute of Earth Sciences ‘Jaume Almera’, CSIC, Barcelona) for carrying out the radiochemical separation and the radioisotopic determinations.
dc.description Peer reviewed
dc.language eng
dc.publisher Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (España)
dc.publisher Universidad de Barcelona
dc.rights openAccess
dc.subject Travertine
dc.subject U/Th dating
dc.subject River dynamics
dc.subject Sea-level changes
dc.subject Pleistocene-Holocene
dc.title U/Th dating of Quaternary travertines at the middle River Llobregat (NE Iberian Peninsula, Nortwestern Mediterranean). Correlation with sea-level changes
dc.type Artículo


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