Dating late Cenozoic erosional surfaces in Victoria Land, Antarctica, with cosmogenic neon in pyroxenes

Antarctic Science

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 89-98

  Oberholzer, P ^a,d   Baroni, C ^b   Salvatore, M C ^c   Baur, H ^a   Wieler, R ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^c SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^d Baugeologie und Geo Bau Labor   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Antarctic tors; East Antarctic Ice Sheet; Mesa Range; Noble gases; Prince Albert Mountains; Surface exposure dating

Indexed keywords

CENOZOIC; DATING METHOD; EROSION RATE; GLACIER; ICE COVER; ICE SHELF; NEON; NUNATAK; PLIOCENE; PYROXENE; TOPOGRAPHY;

ANTARCTICA; EAST ANTARCTICA; MESA RANGE; PRINCE ALBERT MOUNTAINS; VICTORIA LAND;

ZANCLEA;

EID: 38149075334     PISSN: 09541020     EISSN: 13652079     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S095410200700079X     Document Type: Article

References (36)

1. ARMIENTI, P. & BARONI, C. 1999. Cenozoic climatic change in Antarctica recorded by volcanic activity and landscape evolution. Geology, 27, 617-620.
2. BARONI, C., BIASINI, A., BONDESAN, A., DENTON, G.H., FREZZOTTI, M., GRIGIONI, P., MENEGHEL, M., OROMBELLI, G., SALVATORE, M.C., DELLA VEDOVA, A.M. & VITTUARI, L. 2005a. Mount Melbourne Quadrangle, Victoria Land, Antarctica 1:250,000 (Antarctic Geomorphological and Glaciological Map Series). In HAEBERLI, W., ZEMP, M., HOELZLE, M. & FRAUENFELDER, R., eds. Fluctuations of glaciers, 1995-2000 (Vol. VIII). Zürich: IAHS (ICSI)-UNEP-UNESCO, 38-40.
3. BARONI, C., BIASINI, A., CIMBELLI, A., FREZZOTTI, M., OROMBELLI, G., SALVATORE, M.C., TABACCO, I. & VITTUARI, L. 2005b. Relief Inlet Quadrangle, Victoria Land, Antarctica 1:250,000 (Antarctic Geomorphological and Glaciological Map Series). In HAEBERLI, W., ZEMP, M., HOELZLE, M. & FRAUENFELDER, R., eds. Fluctuations of glaciers 1995-2000 (Vol. VIII). Zürich: IAHS (ICSI)-UNEP-UNESCO, 43-44.
4. BARONI, C., FREZZOTTI, M., SALVATORE, M.C., MENEGHEL, M., TABACCO, I.E., VITTUARI, L., BONDESAN, A., BIASINI, A., CIMBELLI, A. & OROMBELLI, G. 2005c. Antarctic geomorphological and glaciological 1:250,000 map series. Mount Murchison Quadrangle (northern Victoria Land). Explanatory notes. (with geomorphological map at the scale of 1:250,000). Annals of Glaciology, 39, 256-264.
5. BARONI, C., NOTI, V., CICCACCI, S., RIGHINI, G. & SALVATORE, M.C. 2005d. Fluvial origin of the valley system in northern Victoria Land (Antarctica) from quantitative geomorphic analysis. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 117, 212-228.
6. BAUR, H. 1999. A noble-gas mass spectrometer compressor source with two orders of magnitude improvement in sensitivity. EOS Transactions AGU, 80, F1118
7. BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY. 2002. Antarctic digital database, version 4.0. Cambridge: Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research.
8. 21Ne. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 147, 37-54.
9. DENTON, G.H. & HUGHES, T.J. 2000. Reconstruction of the Ross Ice drainage system, Antarctica, at the Last Glacial Maximum. Geografiska Annaler, 82A, 143-166.
10. DENTON, G.H., PRENTICE, M.L. & BURCKLE, L.H. 1991. Cainozoic history of the Antarctic ice sheet. In TINGEY, R.J., ed. The geology of Antarctica. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 365-433.
11. DENTON, G.H., BOCKHEIM, J.G., WILSON, S.C. & SCHLÜCHTER, C. 1986. Late Cenozoic history of Rennick Glacier and Talos Dome, northern Victoria Land, Antarctica. Antarctic Research Series, 46, 339-375.
12. EBERHARDT, P., EUGSTER, O. & MARTI, K. 1965. A redetermination of the isotopic composition of atmospheric neon. Zeitschrift für Naturforschung, 20, 623-624.
13. GIORGETTI, G. & BARONI, C. 2007. High-resolution analysis of silica and sulphate-rich rock varnishes from Victoria Land (Antarctica). European Journal of Mineralogy, 19, 381-389.
14. HARRINGTON, H.J. 1958. The nomenclature of rock units in the Ross Sea region. Nature, 182, 290.
15. ISBELL, J.L. 1999. The Kukri Erosion Surface; a reassessment of its relationship to rocks of the beacon supergroup in the central Transantarctic Mountains, Antarctica. Antarctic Science, 11, 228-238.
16. JAMIESON, S.S.R., HULTON, N.R.J., SUGDEN, D.E., PAYNE, A.J. & TAYLOR, J. 2005. Cenozoic landscape evolution of the Lambert Basin, East Antarctica: the relative role of rivers and ice sheets. Global and Planetary Change, 45, 35-49.
17. MARCHANT, D.R., DENTON, G.H., SUGDEN, D.E. & SWISHER, C.C. 1993. Miocene glacial stratigraphy and landscape evolution of the western Asgard Range, Antarctica. Geografiska Annaler, 75A, 303-330.
18. MARCHANT, D.R., DENTON, G.H., BOCKHEIM, J.G., WILSON, S.C. & KERR, A.R. 1994. Quaternary changes in level of the upper Taylor Glacier, Antarctica: implications for palaeoclimate and East Antarctic Ice Sheet dynamics. Boreas, 23, 29-43.
19. MASARIK, J. & WIELER, R. 2003. Production rates of cosmogenic nuclides in boulders. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 216, 201-208.
20. MCKELVEY, B.C., WEBB, P.-N. & KOHN, B.P. 1977. Stratigraphy of the Taylor and Lower Victoria groups (Beacon Supergroup) between the Mackay and Boomerang Range, Antarctica. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics, 20, 813-863.
21. 21Ne production rate in quartz revisited. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 183, 361-364.
22. NIEDERMANN, S. 2002. Cosmic-ray produced noble gases in terrestrial rocks: dating tools for surface processes. In PORCELLI, D., BALLENTINE, C.J. & WIELER, R., eds. Noble gases in geochemistry and cosmochemistry. Washington, DC: Mineralogical Society of America, 731-784.
23. NIEDERMANN, S., SCHAEFER, J.M., WIELER, R. & NAUMANN, R. 2007. The production rate of cosmogenic Ar-38 from calcium in terrestrial pyroxene. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 257, 596-608.
24. 26Al in Antarctic rocks: exposure and erosion history. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 104, 440-454.
25. OBERHOLZER, P., BARONI, C., SCHAEFER, J.M., OROMBELLI, G., IVY-OCHS, S., KUBIK, P.W., BAUR, H. & WIELER, R. 2003. Limited Pliocene/Pleistocene glaciation in Deep Freeze Range, northern Victoria Land, Antarctica, derived from in situ cosmogenic nuclides. Antarctic Science, 15, 493-502.
26. OROMBELLI, G. 1989. Terra Nova Bay: a geographic overview. Memorie della Società Geologica Italiana, 32, 69-75.
27. OROMBELLI, G., BARONI, C. & DENTON, G.H. 1991. Late Cenozoic glacial history of the Terra Nova Bay region, northern Victoria Land, Antarctica. Geografia Fisica e Dinamica Quaternaria, 13, 139-163.
28. POCKNALL, D.T., CHINN, T.J., SKYES, R. & SKINNER, D.N.B. 1994. Geology of the Convoy Range area, southern Victoria Land, Antarctica. Lower Hutt, New Zealand: Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences, 36 pp.
29. SCHÄFER, J., BAUR, H., DENTON, G.H., IVY-OCHS, S., MARCHANT, D.R., SCHLÜ CHTER, C. & WIELER, R. 2000. The oldest ice on earth in Beacon Valley, Antarctica: new evidence from surface exposure dating. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 179, 91-99.
30. SCHÄFER, J.M., IVY-OCHS, S., WIELER, R., LEYA, I., BAUR, H., DENTON, G.H. & SCHLÜCHTER, C. 1999. Cosmogenic noble gas studies in the oldest landscape on Earth: surface exposure ages of the Dry Valleys, Antarctica. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 167, 215-226.
31. SELBY, M.J. 1972. Antarctic tors. Zeitschrift für Geomorphologie, 13, 73-86.
32. STONE, J.O. 2000. Air pressure and cosmogenic isotope production. Journal of Geophysical Research, 105, 23 753-23 759.
33. SUGDEN, D.E. & DENTON, G.H. 2004. Cenozoic landscape evolution of the Convoy Range to Mackay Glacier area, Transantarctic Mountains: onshore to offshore synthesis. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 116, 840-857.
34. VAN DER WATEREN, F.M., DUNAI, T.J., BALEN, R.T.V., KLAS, W., VERBERS, A.L.L.M., PASSCHIER, S. & HERPERS, U. 1999. Contrasting Neogene denudation histories of different structural regions in the Transantarctic Mountains rift flank constrained by cosmogenic isotope measurements. Global and Planetary Change, 23, 145-172.
35. WEBB, P.-N. & HARWOOD, D.M. 1991. Late Cenozoic glacial history of the Ross Embayment, Antarctica. Quaternary Science Reviews, 10, 215-223.
36. WEBB, P.N., HARWOOD, D.M., MCKELVEY, B.C., MERCER, J.H. & STOTT, L.D. 1984. Cenozoic marine sedimentation and ice volume variation on the East Antarctic craton. Geology, 12, 287-291.