Title

The Age of the Kirkdale Cave Palaeofauna

Authors

Donald A. McFarlane, Claremont McKenna College; Pitzer College; Scripps CollegeFollow
Derek C. Ford, McMaster UniversityFollow

Document Type

Article

Department

WM Keck Science

Publication Date

4-1998

Abstract

The Kirkdale Cave palaeofauna represents the original and classic 'warm', interglacial mammalian cave deposit in Britain. Although long considered to be 'Ipswichian' in age, no previous attempts to obtain radiometric dates have been recorded. Here we report a uranium-series disequilibrium date of 121,000 ± 4000 yr BP on a flowstone capping that overlay the original bone bed. The precision of the date exceeds that obtained at any other British Interglacial cave site, and permits tentative correlation with the high precision ice core records now available.

Comments

Received 16 September 1997; Accepted 5 January 1998.

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Recommended Citation

McFarlane, D.A., and D.C. Ford. "The Age of the Kirkdale Cave Palaeofauna." Cave and Karst Science 25.1 (1998): 3-6.