Explain a layer of peat beneath the glacial sediments

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Explain a layer of peat beneath the glacial sediments of the last ice age has a carbon-14/carbon-12 ratio that is 21.4% of that discovered in living organisms. Explain how long ago in yr was this ice age?

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