<abstract xml:lang="en" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>Pollen analyses and radiocarbon dates from the bottom sediments in the Kaali main crater suggested that the crater group is at least 4000–5000 years old. Investigations of silicate impact micro-spherules in surrounding mires (Raukas et al. 1995) put the age about 7500–7600 yr BP. Recently we found both silicate and iron microspherules from organic sediments below well-dated beach ridge in Reo site what supports the conclusions that the most realistic age of the Kaali craters is 7600±50 14C BP (8335–8537 cal BP) and the meteorite fall was from SSE to NNW.</p></abstract>

Pollen analyses and radiocarbon dates from the bottom sediments in the Kaali main crater suggested that the crater group is at least 4000–5000 years old. Investigations of silicate impact micro-spherules in surrounding mires (Raukas et al. 1995) put the age about 7500–7600 yr BP. Recently we found both silicate and iron microspherules from organic sediments below well-dated beach ridge in Reo site what supports the conclusions that the most realistic age of the Kaali craters is 7600±50 14C BP (8335–8537 cal BP) and the meteorite fall was from SSE to NNW.

Dating of the Reo site (Island of Saaremaa, Estonia) with silicate and iron microspherules points to an exact age of the fall of the Kaali meteorite

Institute of History, Tallinn University, Rüütli 6, 10130, Tallinn, Estonia

Institute of Ecology, Tallinn University, Uus-Sadama 5, 10120, Tallinn, Estonia

Institute of Geology, Adam Mickiewicz University, Makow Polnych 16, 61-606, Poznan, Poland

Geochronometria

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Pollen analyses and radiocarbon dates from the bottom sediments in the Kaali main crater suggested that the crater group is at least 4000–5000 years old....

Dating of the Reo site (Island of Saaremaa, Estonia) with silicate and iron microspherules points to an exact age of the fall of the Kaali meteorite

Published Online: Sep 22, 2012

Page range: 262 - 267

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/s13386-012-0015-3

Keywords
silicate and iron microspherules, meteorite fall, meteorite craters, radiocarbon and OSL dates

© 2012 Silesian University of Technology, Gliwice, Poland

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Dating of the Reo site (Island of Saaremaa, Estonia) with silicate and iron microspherules points to an exact age of the fall of the Kaali meteorite

Published Online: Sep 22, 2012

Page range: 262 - 267

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/s13386-012-0015-3

Keywordssilicate and iron microspherules, meteorite fall, meteorite craters, radiocarbon and OSL dates

© 2012 Silesian University of Technology, Gliwice, Poland

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
silicate and iron microspherules, meteorite fall, meteorite craters, radiocarbon and OSL dates