Relative Dating with Cover Beds

Cover beds are usually not regarded of use for relative dating. The examples discussed in this chapter demonstrate otherwise. Central European cover beds usually are of Pleistocene age, and they can be utilized for distinguishing older landforms, such as slope failures, covered by one or more cover...

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Published inDevelopments in Sedimentology Vol. 66; pp. 229 - 251
Main Authors Terhorst, B., Kleber, A., Bibus, E.
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published Elsevier Science & Technology 2013
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Central Europe
Cover beds
Paleosols
Relative dating
Western USA
Western USA
Paleosols
Relative dating
Cover beds
Central Europe
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Summary:Cover beds are usually not regarded of use for relative dating. The examples discussed in this chapter demonstrate otherwise. Central European cover beds usually are of Pleistocene age, and they can be utilized for distinguishing older landforms, such as slope failures, covered by one or more cover beds, from those which are not covered by periglacial deposits. In the western USA, where intervening soil-forming episodes provide a stratigraphic framework for such deposits, the stratigraphic value of cover-bed and soil successions is tested on various types of landforms. However, dating landforms relatively by overlying cover beds calls for due consideration of erosion-induced hiatuses and of tectonically induced processes out of phase with those driven by climate.
ISBN:0444531181
9780444531186
ISSN:0070-4571
DOI:10.1016/B978-0-444-53118-6.00007-6