Investigation of a Flowstone-Like Historical Indoor-Travertine (Rudas Spa, Budapest, Hungary) Using the 14 C “Bomb-Peak”
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9242176 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Magdolna Virág (0000-0001-6104-1963), Miklós Molnár (0000-0003-4382-9508), Mihály Braun (0000-0002-6479-9224), Andrea Mindszenty (0000-0001-8927-3053) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 62 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 1419-1435 |
| Publication date | 2020-10-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Radiocarbon (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0033-8222 • E-ISSN: 1945-5755 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/rdc.2020.24 |
| OpenAlex | W3023393394 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 25 |
Travertine precipitated during the past ca. 120 years, from thermal waters in one of the historical Spas of the Buda Thermal Karst (Hungary) was investigated using radiocarbon ( 14 C). The age of the deposit is based on the historic date of the structure on which the travertine was deposited. A textural study of the travertine buildup using a ~22-cm-long diamond-core crosscutting was undertaken. The original aim of the study was to improve our understanding of the controls and possibly also the rate of travertine-precipitation. In addition to characteristic, mm-scale, regular laminations, 0.5–1.0 cm dark-colored intervals were also observed in the core. Correlation of these latter textural changes with well-known changes in the water management of the Spa was greatly hindered by the lack of age data from the interior of the core. Therefore, in addition to the two known points (beginning in 1883 AD and ending 2004 AD) at least one age-datum point, somewhere inbetween, was necessary. Since the timespan of the core obviously included the 1960s of the last century, we expected that the 14 C anomaly related to the atmospheric nuclear tests of those years could be detected by isotope-geochemistry. This paper gives a brief overview of the textural features of the investigated travertine and presents the dataset proving the incorporation of considerable amounts of atmospheric carbon in the carbonate precipitate, which, indeed, facilitated the indirect dating of the part of the core containing “bomb” 14 C, and this helped us to unfold the factors controlling the observed textural changes of the travertine
Archaeology · Calcite · Carbonate · Climatology · Geochemistry · Geography · Ice core · Meteorology · Mineralogy · Precipitation · Radiocarbon dating · Chemistry · Geology and Paleoclimatology Research · Isotope Analysis in Ecology · Marine and environmental studies · Geology · Paleontology
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| Citations per year | 0.4 |
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| Citation span | 2021 - 2022 (2) |
| Highly cited | No |