We discuss our progress in three principal applications of 14 C dating of recent and fossil soils: 1) new methods; 2) problems of interpreting 14 C soil data ( e.g., 14 C age of soils, age of soils, duration of humus formation, rate of carbon cycling); and 3) 14 C analysis of soil organic matter (OM) in pedology and paleogeography ( e.g., soil genesis and evolution, humus formation and OM metamorphosis, geochronology and stratigraphy of Late Pleistocene and Holocene sediments). We suggest exploring the above issues in the analysis of each 14 C profile in conjunction with paleogeographical data, and by simulation of the carbon cycle in each type of profile.
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