A chronology of Holocene and Little Ice Age glacier culminations of the Steingletscher, Central Alps, Switzerland, based on high-sensitivity beryllium-10 moraine dating

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 393, Issue , 2014, Pages 220-230

  Schimmelpfennig, Irene ^a,b   Schaefer, Joerg M ^a   Akçar, Naki ^c   Koffman, Tobias ^a,d   Ivy Ochs, Susan ^e   Schwartz, Roseanne ^a   Finkel, Robert C ^f,g   Zimmerman, Susan ^f   Schlüchter, Christian ^c  

^a Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^b AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MAINE   (United States)

^e ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^f LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Glacier fluctuations; Holocene; Little Ice Age; Swiss Alps

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; STRATIGRAPHY;

GLACIER FLUCTUATIONS; HOLOCENES; LITTLE ICE AGE; SWISS ALPS;

ICE;

BERYLLIUM ISOTOPE; CLIMATE CHANGE; DATING METHOD; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GLACIER DYNAMICS; HOLOCENE; LITTLE ICE AGE; MORAINE;

ALPS; CENTRAL ALPS; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 84896502658     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2014.02.046     Document Type: Article

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