Late glacial fluctuations of the Laurentide Ice Sheet in the White Mountains of Maine and New Hampshire, U.S.A.
Prominent moraines deposited by the Laurentide Ice Sheet in northern New England document readvances, or stillstands, of the ice margin during overall deglaciation. However, until now, the paucity of direct chronologies over much of the region has precluded meaningful assessment of the mechanisms th...
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crcambridgeupr:10.1016/j.yqres.2015.02.004 2024-06-23T07:53:21+00:00 Late glacial fluctuations of the Laurentide Ice Sheet in the White Mountains of Maine and New Hampshire, U.S.A. Bromley, Gordon R.M. Hall, Brenda L. Thompson, Woodrow B. Kaplan, Michael R. Garcia, Juan Luis Schaefer, Joerg M. Pike Industries, Inc. University of Maine 2015 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.yqres.2015.02.004 http://api.elsevier.com/content/article/PII:S003358941500023X?httpAccept=text/xml http://api.elsevier.com/content/article/PII:S003358941500023X?httpAccept=text/plain https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0033589400000971 en eng Cambridge University Press (CUP) https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms http://www.elsevier.com/tdm/userlicense/1.0/ Quaternary Research volume 83, issue 3, page 522-530 ISSN 0033-5894 1096-0287 journal-article 2015 crcambridgeupr https://doi.org/10.1016/j.yqres.2015.02.004 2024-06-12T04:05:01Z Prominent moraines deposited by the Laurentide Ice Sheet in northern New England document readvances, or stillstands, of the ice margin during overall deglaciation. However, until now, the paucity of direct chronologies over much of the region has precluded meaningful assessment of the mechanisms that drove these events, or of the complex relationships between ice-sheet dynamics and climate. As a step towards addressing this problem, we present a cosmogenic 10 Be surface-exposure chronology from the Androscoggin moraine complex, located in the White Mountains of western Maine and northern New Hampshire, as well as four recalculated ages from the nearby Littleton–Bethlehem moraine. Seven internally consistent 10 Be ages from the Androscoggin terminal moraines indicate that advance culminated ~ 13.2 ± 0.8 ka, in close agreement with the mean age of the neighboring Littleton–Bethlehem complex. Together, these two datasets indicate stabilization or advance of the ice-sheet margin in northern New England, at ~ 14–13 ka, during the Allerød/Greenland Interstadial I. Article in Journal/Newspaper Greenland Ice Sheet Cambridge University Press Greenland Quaternary Research 83 3 522 530 |
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Prominent moraines deposited by the Laurentide Ice Sheet in northern New England document readvances, or stillstands, of the ice margin during overall deglaciation. However, until now, the paucity of direct chronologies over much of the region has precluded meaningful assessment of the mechanisms that drove these events, or of the complex relationships between ice-sheet dynamics and climate. As a step towards addressing this problem, we present a cosmogenic 10 Be surface-exposure chronology from the Androscoggin moraine complex, located in the White Mountains of western Maine and northern New Hampshire, as well as four recalculated ages from the nearby Littleton–Bethlehem moraine. Seven internally consistent 10 Be ages from the Androscoggin terminal moraines indicate that advance culminated ~ 13.2 ± 0.8 ka, in close agreement with the mean age of the neighboring Littleton–Bethlehem complex. Together, these two datasets indicate stabilization or advance of the ice-sheet margin in northern New England, at ~ 14–13 ka, during the Allerød/Greenland Interstadial I. |
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Bromley, Gordon R.M. Hall, Brenda L. Thompson, Woodrow B. Kaplan, Michael R. Garcia, Juan Luis Schaefer, Joerg M. Late glacial fluctuations of the Laurentide Ice Sheet in the White Mountains of Maine and New Hampshire, U.S.A. |
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Bromley, Gordon R.M. Hall, Brenda L. Thompson, Woodrow B. Kaplan, Michael R. Garcia, Juan Luis Schaefer, Joerg M. |
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Bromley, Gordon R.M. |
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Late glacial fluctuations of the Laurentide Ice Sheet in the White Mountains of Maine and New Hampshire, U.S.A. |
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Late glacial fluctuations of the Laurentide Ice Sheet in the White Mountains of Maine and New Hampshire, U.S.A. |
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Late glacial fluctuations of the Laurentide Ice Sheet in the White Mountains of Maine and New Hampshire, U.S.A. |
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Late glacial fluctuations of the Laurentide Ice Sheet in the White Mountains of Maine and New Hampshire, U.S.A. |
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Late glacial fluctuations of the Laurentide Ice Sheet in the White Mountains of Maine and New Hampshire, U.S.A. |
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late glacial fluctuations of the laurentide ice sheet in the white mountains of maine and new hampshire, u.s.a. |
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