Weathering of surface clasts as an indicator of the relative age of glacial deposits on Jameson Land, East Greenland
The relative age of glacial deposits on Jameson Land was investigated by weathering‐based techniques. Two related methods, measurement of rind thickness and of Schmidt hammer rebound values. were added to a dating programme of luminescence‐, amino acid‐ and 14 C‐analyses. Rind thicknesses differ sig...
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| Language: | English |
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Wiley
1994
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| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1502-3885.1994.tb00614.x https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1111%2Fj.1502-3885.1994.tb00614.x https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1502-3885.1994.tb00614.x |
| Summary: | The relative age of glacial deposits on Jameson Land was investigated by weathering‐based techniques. Two related methods, measurement of rind thickness and of Schmidt hammer rebound values. were added to a dating programme of luminescence‐, amino acid‐ and 14 C‐analyses. Rind thicknesses differ significantly between areas which represent three glacial phascs, spanning a time interval from late Saale to Late Weichselian. Rebound values are more susceptible to external factors than the rind values but may, if these external factors are known, serve as a complement to the interpretation of rind development. |
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