Chronology for Fluctuations in Late Pleistocene Sierra Nevada Glaciers and Lakes

Mountain glaciers, because of their small size, are usually close to equilibrium with the local climate and thus should provide a test of whether temperature oscillations in Greenland late in the last glacial period are part of global-scale climate variability or are restricted to the North Atlantic...

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Published in:Science
Main Authors: Phillips, Fred M., Zreda, Marek G., Benson, Larry V., Plummer, Mitchell A., Elmore, David, Sharma, Pankaj
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) 1996
Subjects:
Multidisciplinary
Greenland
North Atlantic
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.274.5288.749
https://www.science.org/doi/pdf/10.1126/science.274.5288.749
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Summary:Mountain glaciers, because of their small size, are usually close to equilibrium with the local climate and thus should provide a test of whether temperature oscillations in Greenland late in the last glacial period are part of global-scale climate variability or are restricted to the North Atlantic region. Correlation of cosmogenic chlorine-36 dates on Sierra Nevada moraines with a continuous radiocarbon-dated sediment record from nearby Owens Lake shows that Sierra Nevada glacial advances were associated with Heinrich events 5, 3, 2, and 1.

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