[sup 14]C and [sup 10]Be evidence for no incursion of the Lake Michigan lobe in northern Illinois from ca. 170 to 25 ka
- Illinois State Geological Survey, Champaign, IL (United States)
- Geological Survey, Reston, VA (United States)
Uncorrected [sup 10]Be inventories of a 2.7 m-long section of core indicate surface exposure lasting 115 ka during development of the Sangamon Geosol and 30 ka for a soil complex developed in overlying loessial sediment (Robein Silt). The latter estimate is in agreement with [sup 14]C assays in the region. Taking into account the age of overlying late Wisconsin drift, the new data indicate an age of about 170 ka for the onset of Sangamon pedogenesis in northern Illinois. Previous to this study, there have been no numerical-age determinations for the start of the last interglacial in northern IL. The data confirm a previous hypothesis that the Lake Michigan Lobe did not invade IL contemporaneous with deposition of Roxana Silt, or during the other period of midcontinental loess deposition suggest by TL ages of ca. 70 to 85 ka. The core was collected immediately south of the IL-WI border (42[degree] 30 minutes N, 88[degree] 30 minutes W) near Hebron, IL. Buried by 14 m of late Wisconsin drift, and the interval assayed for [sup 10]Be included 2.0 m of pedogenically-altered Illinoian sand and gravel, and 0.7 m of Wisconsin silt. One AMS [sup 14]C assay of carbonized fragments from the A-horizon of the Sangamon Geosol yielded an age of 38,500 [+-] 5,000 yr B.P.; conventional [sup 14]C ages for the overlying silt are from wood fragments (24,780 [times] 360 yr B.P.) and a bulk soil sample (26,030 [+-] 450 yr B.P.). The range of ages is typical for this stratigraphic sequence in IL. The [sup 10]Be concentration in the lowest part of the silt is 600 atoms/gm. This value is three times greater than the concentration typical of calcareous Mississippi River valley loess and of the C-horizon of the Sangamon Geosol in the core. High concentration of [sup 10]Be in the Robein Silt likely was caused by redeposition of [sup 10]Be-rich B-horizon material eroded from soil profiles elsewhere in the paleobasin.
- OSTI ID:
- 6924887
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-9404217-; CODEN: GAAPBC
- Journal Information:
- Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs; (United States), Vol. 26:5; Conference: 27. annual conference of the North-Central Section of the Geological Society of America (GSA), Kalamazoo, MI (United States), 28-29 Apr 1994; ISSN 0016-7592
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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