Long-term rates of denudation in the Dry Valleys, Transantarctic Mountains, southern Victoria Land, Antarctica based on in-situ-produced cosmogenic 21Ne

Geomorphology

Volumn 27, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 113-129

  Summerfield, M A ^a   Stuart, F M ^b   Cockburn, H A P ^a   Sugden, D E ^a   Denton, G H ^c   Dunai, T ^d   Marchant, D R ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b SCOTTISH UNIVERSITIES ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MAINE   (United States)

^d VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^e BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Antarctica; Cosmogenic isotopes; Denudation rates; Landscape evolution; Paleoclimatology

Indexed keywords

COSMOGENIC RADIONUCLIDE; DENUDATION; ESTIMATION METHOD;

ANTARCTICA;

EID: 0033382761     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-555X(98)00093-2     Document Type: Article

References (52)

1. 26Al produced in situ - an example from Pajarito plateau, Valles caldera region Geology. 21:1993;551-554.
2. Augustinus P.C., Selby M.J. Rock slope development in McMurdo Oasis, Antarctica, and implications for interpretations of glacial history. Geogr. Ann. 72A:1990;55-62.
3. Barrett P.J., Adams C.J., McIntosh W.C., Swisher C.C. III, Wilson G.S. Geochronological evidence supporting Antarctic deglaciation three million years ago. Nature. 359:1992;816-818.
4. Behrendt J.C., Cooper A. Evidence of rapid Cenozoic uplift of the shoulder escarpment of the Cenozoic West Antarctic rift system and a speculation on possible climate forcing. Geology. 19:1991;315-319.
5. 26Al evidence for exceptionally low rates of Australian bedrock erosion and the likely existence of pre-Pleistocene landscapes Quat. Res. 44:1995;378-382.
6. 26Al Geology. 23:1995;1063-1066.
7. 26Al in Quartz: implications for exposure dating Geophys. Res. Lett. 19:1992;369-372.
8. Brown, R.W., Summerfield, M.A., Gleadow, A.J.W., 1994. Apatite fission track analysis: its potential for the estimation of denudation rates and implications for models of long-term landscape development. In: Kirkby, M.J. (Ed.), Process Models and Theoretical Geomorphology. Wiley, Chichester, pp. 23-53.
9. 21Ne Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 147:1997;37-54.
10. Bull C. Climatological observations in ice-free areas of southern Victoria Land, Antarctica. Am. Geophys. Un., Antarctic Res. Ser. 9:1966;177-194.
11. Clapperton C.M., Sugden D.E. Late Cenozoic glacial history of the Ross Sea embayment, Antarctica. Quat. Sci. Rev. 9:1990;253-272.
12. Denton G.H., Sugden D.E., Marchant D.R., Hall B.L., Wilch T.I. East Antarctic ice sheet sensitivity to Pliocene climatic change from a Dry Valleys perspective. Geogr. Ann. 75A:1993;155-204.
13. Fitzgerald P.G. The Transantarctic Mountains of southern Victoria Land: the application of apatite fission track analysis to a rift shoulder uplift. Tectonics. 11:1992;634-662.
14. Fitzgerald P.G., Sandiford M., Barrett P.J., Gleadow A.J.W. Asymmetric extension associated with uplift and subsidence of the Transantarctic Mountains and Ross Embayment. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 81:1986;67-78.
15. Fortuin J.P.F., Oerlemans J. Parameterization of the annual surface temperature and mass balance of Antarctica. Ann. Glaciol. 14:1990;78-84.
16. Friedmann E.I., Druk A.Y., McKay C.P. Limits of life and microbial extinction in the Antarctic desert. Antarctic J. U.S. 29(5):1994;176-179.
17. Giegengack, R., Macchiaroli, P.E., Klein, J., Lawn, B., Middleton, R., 1994. Exposure ages, erosion rates, and burial histories of bedrock surfaces in and near the Dry Valleys, Antarctica: preliminary results from AMS measurement of selected cosmogenic radionuclides. In: van der Wateren, F.M., Verbers, A.L.L.M., Tessensohn, F. (Eds.), LIRA Workshop on Landscape Evolution: A Multidisciplinary Approach to the Relationship Between Cenozoic Climate Change and Tectonics in the Ross Sea Area, Antarctica. Rijks Geologische Dienst., Haarlem, p. 137.
18. Gleadow A.J.W., Fitzgerald P.G. Uplift history and structure of the Transantarctic Mountains: new evidence from fission track dating of basement apatites in the Dry Valleys area, southern Victoria Land. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 82:1987;1-14.
19. Graf T., Kohl C.P., Marti K., Nishiizumi K. Cosmic ray produced neon in Antarctic rocks. Geophys. Res. Lett. 18:1991;65-73.
20. 10Be exposure ages of early Pliocene for the Table Mountain plateau and the Sirius Group at Mount Fleming, Dry Valleys, Antarctica Geology. 23:1995;1007-1010.
21. Kennett J.P., Hodell D.A. Evidence for relative climatic stability of Antarctica during the early Pliocene: a marine perspective. Geogr. Ann. 75A:1993;205-220.
22. Kerr, A., Sugden, D.E., Summerfield, M.A., in press. Linking tectonics and landscape development in a passive margin setting: the Transantarctic Mountains. In: Summerfield, M.A. (Ed.), Geomorphology and Global Tectonics. Wiley, Chichester.
23. Kohl C.P., Nishiizumi K. Chemical isolation of quartz for measurement of in-situ-produced cosmogenic nuclides. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta. 56:1992;3583-3587.
24. Kurz M.O. In-situ production of terrestrial cosmogenic helium and some applications to geochronology. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta. 50:1986;2855-2862.
25. Lal D. Cosmic ray labeling of erosion surfaces: in situ nuclide production rates and erosion models. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 104:1991;424-439.
26. Lal D. On cosmic-ray exposure ages of terrestrial rocks: a suggestion. Radiocarbon. 37:1995;889-898.
27. Marchant D.R., Denton G.H. Miocene and Pliocene paleoclimate of the Dry Valleys region, Southern Victoria land: a geomorphological approach. Mar. Micropaleont. 27:1996;253-271.
28. Marchant D.R., Swisher C.C. III, Lux D.R., West D.P. Jr. Pliocene paleoclimate and east Antarctic ice-sheet history from surficial ash deposits. Science. 260:1993;667-670.
29. Marchant D.R., Denton G.H. and, Swisher C.C. III Miocene-Pliocene-Pleistocene glacial history of Arena Valley, Quatermain Mountains, Antarctica. Geogr. Ann. 75A:1993;269-302.
30. Marchant D.R., Denton G.H., Swisher C.C. III, Potter N. Jr. Late Cenozoic Antarctic paleoclimate reconstructed from volcanic ashes in the Dry Valleys region of southern Victoria Land. Geol. Soc. Am. Bull. 108:1996;181-194.
31. Niederman S., Graf T., Marti K. Mass spectrometric identification of cosmic-ray-produced neon in terrestrial rocks with multiple neon components. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 118:1993;65-73.
32. 21Ne in terrestrial quartz: the neon inventory of Sierra Nevada quartz separates Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 125:1994;341-355.
33. 26Al in Antarctic rocks: exposure and erosion history Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 104:1991;440-454.
34. Sarda P., Staudacher T., Allègre C.J., Lecomte A. Cosmogenic neon and helium at Réunion: measurement of erosion rate. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 119:1993;405-417.
35. Schwerdtfeger, W., 1984. Weather and Climate of the Antarctic. Elsevier, Amsterdam.
36. Selby M.J. Slopes and their development in an ice-free, arid area of Antarctica. Geogr. Ann. 53A:1971;235-245.
37. Selby M.J. Slope evolution in an Antarctic oasis. New Zealand Geogr. 30:1974;18-34.
38. Selby, M.J., 1993. Hillslope Materials and Processes, 2nd edn. Oxford Univ. Press, Oxford.
39. Sugden D.E., Denton G.H., Marchant D.R. Landscape evolution of the Dry Valleys, Transantarctic Mountains: tectonic implications. J. Geophys. Res. 100:1995;9949-9967.
40. Sugden D.E., Marchant D.R., Potter N.L. Jr., Souchez R.A., Denton G.H., Swisher C.C. III, Tison J.-L. Preservation of Miocene ice in East Antarctica. Nature. 376:1995;412-414.
41. Summerfield, M.A., 1991. Global Geomorphology. Longman, London/Wiley, New York.
42. Summerfield M.A., Hulton N.J. Natural controls of fluvial denudation rates in major world drainage basins. J. Geophys. Res. 99:1994;13871-13883.
43. Taylor, G., 1914. Physiography and glacial geology of east Antarctica. Geogr. J., 44: 365-382, 452-467, 553-571.
44. ten Brink U.S., Bannister S., Beaudoin B.C., Stern T.A. Geophysical investigations of the tectonic boundary between East and West Antarctica. Science. 261:1993;45-50.
45. 3He in olivine and quartz: implications for surface exposure dating Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 103:1991;241-256.
46. Webb P.N., Harwood D.M. Late Cenozoic glacial history of the Ross Embayment, Antarctica. Quat. Sci. Rev. 10:1991;215-223.
47. Webb P.N., Harwood D.M., McKelvey B.C., Mercer J.H., Stott L.D. Cenozoic marine sedimentation and ice-volume variation on the East Antarctic craton. Geology. 12:1984;287-291.
48. Weed, R., Norton, S.A., 1991. Siliceous crusts, quartz rinds and biotic weathering of sandstones in the cold desert of Antarctica. Proc. Int. Symp. Environ. Biogeochem. Elsevier, Amsterdam, pp. 327-340.
49. Wetherill G.W. Variations in the isotopic abundance of neon and argon extracted from radioactive minerals. Phys. Rev. 96:1954;679-683.
50. Wilch T.I., Lux D.R., Denton G.H., McIntosh W.C. Minimal Pliocene-Pleistocene uplift of the dry valleys sector of the Transantarctic Mountains: a key parameter in ice-sheet reconstructions. Geology. 21:1993;841-844.
51. Wilch T.I., Denton G.H., Lux D.R., McIntosh W.C. Limited Pliocene glacier extent and surface uplift in middle Taylor Valley, Antarctica. Geogr. Ann. 75A:1993;331-351.
52. Yatsevich I., Honda M. Production of nucleogenic neon in the Earth from natural radioactive decay. J. Geophys. Res. 102:1997;10291-10298.