- Sample Details
- Sample ID:
- DIC-685
- Delta13 Correction:
- 100
- Age BP:
- 9980 ± 255
- Sitename:
- Quelccaya
- Country:
- Peru
- Material:
- peat
- Sample Details:
- Provenience:
- core
- Context of the Sample:
- Galcier within "Little Ice Age" limit. Uppermost peat of Huancane I moraine.
- Description of the Site:
- Quelccaya ice cap, situated just south of the E end of the Cordillera Vilcanota. The ice cap covers 70 km2 plateau and is the only one within the tropics.
- Location Details
- Country:
- Peru
- Administration Unit:
- Cu
- Latitude:
- -13.933333
- Longitude:
- -70.9
- Altitude:
- 4900
- Project Details
- Collected:
- Mercer J. H.; 0
- Project:
- Laboratory comment:
- 0
- Contamination:
- Archaeological comment:
- Publication date:
- 1976
- References:
- - Mercer J. H., Oscar Palacios M., 1977, Radiocarbon dating of the last glaciation in Peru [in:] Geology, vol. 5, pp. 600-604, October 1977,600-604