APPLICATION OF ¹⁴C METHOD TO CHRONOLOGY OF THE CROATIAN DINARIC KARST—A CASE OF THE PLITVICE LAKES

ABSTRACT Karst environments preserve some of the best archives past climate, vegetation, hydrology, anthropogenic impact, and landscape evolution providing that a reliable chronology can be established. Here we present an example system Plitvice Lakes (Dinaric karst, Croatia), which is characterized by intensive tufa lake sediment formations. The radiocarbon dating method, combined with other methods various geochemical isotope analyses, showed in form has existed for about 8000 years. Older deposits were dated to warm interglacial periods. A long-term comprehensive multi-proxy study all environmental compartments (atmosphere, water bodies, soil, bedrock, DIC, terrestrial aquatic biota, course secondary carbonates) must included order obtain trustworthy results.