Chronology for Fluctuations in Late Pleistocene Sierra Nevada Glaciers and Lakes

• 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

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.