10Be dating reveals early-middle Holocene age of the Drygalski Moraines in central West Greenland

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 147, Issue , 2016, Pages 59-68

  Cronauer, Sandra L ^a   Briner, Jason P ^a   Kelley, Samuel E ^a,d   Zimmerman, Susan R H ^b   Morlighem, Mathieu ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cosmogenic nuclide exposure dating; Greenland Ice Sheet; Holocene; Proglacial threshold lake

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENTS; GLACIERS; LAKES; SEDIMENTS; STRATIGRAPHY;

COSMOGENIC NUCLIDES; GREENLAND ICE SHEET; HOLOCENES; LAKE SEDIMENTS; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; OCEAN TEMPERATURE; PRO-GLACIAL; PROGLACIAL LAKES;

ICE;

AGE STRUCTURE; BERYLLIUM ISOTOPE; COSMOGENIC RADIONUCLIDE; DEGLACIATION; GEOCHRONOLOGY; HOLOCENE; ICE RETREAT; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; MORAINE; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; PROGLACIAL ENVIRONMENT; RADIOCARBON DATING; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

ANTARCTICA; ARCTIC; DRYGALSKI GLACIER; EAST ANTARCTICA; GREENLAND; GREENLAND ICE SHEET; NUUSSUAQ;

EID: 84941729381     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2015.08.034     Document Type: Article

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