Review on dating methods: Numerical dating in the quaternary geology of High Asia |
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Authors: | Matthias Kuhle Sabine Kuhle |
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Institution: | 1.Department of Geography and High Mountain Geomorphology,Georg-August-University of Goettingen,Goettingen,Germany |
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Abstract: | Over the past few years, OSL and TCN datings of glacial material from High Asia have come into fashion. To this day, however,
these techniques do not permit safe calibration. The intensity of the cosmic ray flux is being modulated by the solar and
terrestrial magnetic fields and their secular fluctuations in the past. So far, these variations cannot be converted into
the respective local TCN production rates for High Asia. We have reason to believe that the ages that are being calculated
despite these uncertainties are generally overestimated. This assessment is supported by conventional radiocarbon dates and
above all by the glacial chronology developed independently on the basis of the Quaternary geological method. The strongly
emerging evidence for a much more extensive LGM glaciation of High Asia is, however, either being ignored or rejected by many
authors, solely on the basis of the above-mentioned uncalibrated datings. This self-conceit based on the “dating fallacy”,
as we call it, should be avoided since it goes decidedly against the standards of the scientific method established in Quaternary
geology and makes a fundamental scientific discussion impossible. |
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