Holocene dynamics of the Rhone Glacier, Switzerland, deduced from ice flow models and cosmogenic nuclides

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 351-352, Issue , 2012, Pages 27-35

  Goehring, Brent M ^a   Vacco, David A ^a   Alley, Richard B ^a   Schaefer, Joerg M ^b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b International Research Institute for Climate and Society   (United States)

Author keywords

10Be; Holocene; In situ 14C; Rhone Glacier

Indexed keywords

BEST FIT; CLIMATE EVENT; CLIMATE VARIATION; COSMOGENIC; COSMOGENIC NUCLIDES; DRIVING MECHANISM; FIRST-ORDER; HOLOCENES; ICE-FLOW MODELS; IN-SITU; LARGE AMPLITUDE; LITTLE ICE AGE; MEDIEVAL WARM PERIOD; MID TO LATE HOLOCENE; PALEOCLIMATE RECORDS; PALEOCLIMATES; SWITZERLAND;

GEOLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

INCIDENT SOLAR RADIATION;

COSMOGENIC RADIONUCLIDE; GLACIER DYNAMICS; HOLOCENE; ICE FLOW; INSOLATION; LITTLE ICE AGE; MEDIEVAL WARM PERIOD; PALEOCLIMATE; SPELEOTHEM;

ALPS; ANTARCTICA; EAST ANTARCTICA; RHONE GLACIER; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 84865455864     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2012.07.027     Document Type: Article

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