U/Th dating of carbonate deposits from Constantina (Sevilla), Spain

Uranium-series method has been applied to continental carbonate deposits from Constantina, Seville, in Spain. All samples analysed were impure carbonates and the leachate–leachate method was used to obtain activity ratios in carbonate fraction. Leachate–residue methods were applied to one of the samples in order to compare with leachate–leachate method, but leachate–residue method assumptions did not meet and ages resulting from leachate–residue methods were not valid. Ages obtained by leachate–leachate method range from 1.8 to 23.5 ky BP and are consistent with stratigraphical positions of samples analysed. Initial activity ratios for uranium isotopes are practically constant in this period, thus indicating that no changes in environmental conditions occur between 1.8 and 23.5 ky period.