Radiometric 81Kr dating identifies 120,000-year-old ice at Taylor Glacier, Antarctica

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 111, Issue 19, 2014, Pages 6876-6881

  Buizert, Christo ^a   Baggenstos, Daniel ^b   Jiang, Wei ^c   Purtschert, Roland ^d   Petrenko, Vasilii V ^e   Lu, Zheng Tian ^c,f   Müller, Peter ^c   Kuhl, Tanner ^g   Lee, James ^a   Severinghaus, Jeffrey P ^b   Brook, Edward J ^a  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Geochronology; Glaciology; Paleoclimatology

Indexed keywords

ICE; KRYPTON; KRYPTON 81; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AIR POLLUTION; ANALYTIC METHOD; ANTARCTICA; ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; ATOM TRAP TRACE ANALYSIS; GLACIER; INTERGLACIAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOMETRIC DATING; CHEMISTRY; CLIMATE CHANGE; GAS; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GLACIOLOGY; ICE COVER; METHODOLOGY; PALEOCLIMATOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; STANDARD;

GEOCHRONOLOGY; GLACIOLOGY; PALEOCLIMATOLOGY;

ANTARCTIC REGIONS; CLIMATE CHANGE; GASES; ICE; ICE COVER; KRYPTON RADIOISOTOPES; RADIOMETRIC DATING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 84900492518     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1320329111     Document Type: Article

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