Tropical glacier fluctuations in the Cordillera Blanca, Peru between 12.5 and 7.6 ka from cosmogenic 10Be dating

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 28, Issue 27-28, 2009, Pages 3448-3458

  Glasser, Neil F ^a   Clemmens, Samuel ^a   Schnabel, Christoph ^b   Fenton, Cassandra R ^b   McHargue, Lanny ^c  

^a ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b NATURAL ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COSMOGENIC NUCLIDES; EROSION RATES; EXPOSURE AGE; GLACIER RECESSION; GREENLAND; ICE CORE; IN-SITU; LACUSTRINE SEDIMENTS; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; PLANETARY SCIENCE; PRODUCTION RATES; PROXY RECORDS; SCALING SYSTEM; SOLAR MODULATION; SURFACE EXPOSURE; SURFACE EXPOSURE AGE; TEMPORAL VARIABILITY; TROPICAL GLACIERS; YOUNGER DRYAS;

ARCTIC ENGINEERING; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; COSMOLOGY; DROUGHT; GLACIERS; IONIZING RADIATION; LANDFORMS;

GEOCHRONOLOGY;

AIR TEMPERATURE; BOULDER; COSMOGENIC RADIONUCLIDE; EROSION RATE; GLACIER ADVANCE; GLACIER DYNAMICS; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; MORAINE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; YOUNGER DRYAS;

CORDILLERA BLANCA; CORDILLERA OCCIDENTAL [PERU]; PERU; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 70450284385     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2009.10.006     Document Type: Article

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