The Value of 210Pb in Dating Scandinavian Aquatic and Peat Deposits

. Sediment and peat chronologies have been further improved allowing alterna- tive radiometric methods to complement '4C dating. Lacustrine and coastal marine sediments as well as peat deposits in various parts in Scandinavia are studied using I37( 210Pb, '4C and other methods primarily to evaluate the 210Pb but also to extend the 14(a chronology. The sampling sites have various sources of input and are characterized by different geochemical, depo- sitional, and post-depositional conditions.

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