Aminocronoestratigrafía e historia térmica de los depósitos
cuaternarios de las Islas Canarias (España): resultados
preliminares de la Isla de Lanzarote
This paper deals on the first results of an Amino acid racemization dating campaing carried out on
coastal and archaeological mollusca deposits of Lanzarote and Gran Canaria islands (Canary Islands,
Spain). First results pointed out to a marked difference into amino acid kinetics, when compared with
Iberian Peninsula one: leucine, AI isoleucine and aspartic acid racemizate faster (100%) than in the
Iberian Peninsula gastropod samples. Glutamic acid and phenilalanine racemizate much more faster
and ages obtained, by applying Iberian Peninsula algorithms, are 500% older than those obtained
through radiometric methods. Current Mean Annual Temperature calculated values are between 14
and 17"C, being between 11 and 14"C for the Iberian Peninsula