Revised Chronology of the Sulmona Lacustrine Succession, Central Italy

Abstract

We present new stratigraphic, palaeomagnetic, 87 Sr/ 86 Sr and 40 Ar/ 39 Ar data from a lacustrine succession of the Sulmona basin, central Italy, which, according to an early study, included six unconformity‐bounded lacustrine units (from SUL6, oldest, to SUL1, youngest) spanning the interval >600 to 2 ka. The results of the present study, on the one hand confirm some of the previous conclusions, but by contrast reveal that units SUL2 and SUL1, previously attributed to the Holocene, are actually equivalent to the older SUL6 and SUL5 units – here dated to ∼814–>530 ka and ∼530–

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