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THE diachronism of an environmental change—that is, the extent to which its age varies with location—is a useful clue to its origin1. In the case of alluvial sequences, the time taken for filling and trenching to work their way through a drainage basin is likely to obscure chronological differences between basins unless they are sufficiently distant from each other for any regional trend to become apparent. I report here 14C dates for alluvial units in south-eastern Spain, and suggest that they are consistent with the effects of latitudinally diachronous deposition throughout the Mediterranean Basin and Near East.
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VITA-FINZI, C. Diachronism in Old World alluvial sequences. Nature 263, 218–219 (1976). https://doi.org/10.1038/263218a0
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