Subfossil oaks from alluvial deposits and their role in past fluvial activities analysis: case study East Carpathian rivers, Romania

Constantin NECHITA, Maria RĂDOANE, Francisca CHIRILOAEI, Nicolae RĂDOANE, Ionel POPA, Catalin ROIBU, Delia ROBU

Abstract


Dendrochronological research was conducted in Europe in several centers whereby oak trees, regardless of species, originating from various archaeological sites were studied. Thereby, several shronologies were assembled in Ireland, Germany and the UK, covering the past 7000 to 8000 years. The environment impacts on tree growth by generating higher / lower growth rates
compared to the multinannual average, thus indicating extreme years. The patterns of extreme years pertaining to individual sequences are subsequently synchronized by cross-dating.
The study area consists of two rivers with different typologies but comparable in terms of size: river Moldova (braided to wandering channel in the lower reach) and river Siret (sinuosmeandering channel). Along the 100 km-long floodplain of the former and the 144 km-long floodplain of the latter we found and sampled 77 subfossil trunks from which 26 were subjected
to 14C dating


Keywords


dendrochronology

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