High-precision 10Be chronology of moraines in the Southern Alps indicates synchronous cooling in Antarctica and New Zealand 42,000 years ago

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 405, Issue , 2014, Pages 194-206

  Kelley, Samuel E ^a,g   Kaplan, Michael R ^b   Schafer, Joerg M ^b   Andersen, Bjørn G ^c   Barrell, David J A ^d   Putnam, Aaron E ^b   Denton, George H ^a   Schwartz, Roseanne ^b   Finkel, Robert C ^e   Doughty, Alice M ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MAINE   (United States)

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

^c UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^d GNS SCIENCE   (New Zealand)

^e LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^f Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

10Be surface exposure dating; LGM; MIS 3; New Zealand; Southern Hemisphere; Westerly wind field

Indexed keywords

10BE SURFACE-EXPOSURE DATING; LGM; NEW ZEALAND; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; WESTERLY WINDS;

BERYLLIUM ISOTOPE; CHRONOLOGY; COOLING; DATING METHOD; ICE CORE; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; MORAINE; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; WESTERLY; WIND FIELD;

ANTARCTICA; NEW ZEALAND; SOUTH ISLAND; SOUTHERN ALPS;

EID: 84907690987     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2014.07.031     Document Type: Article

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