Establishing a chronology for the world’s oldest glacier ice
ancient glacier ice. Four independent dating techniques confirm that the glacier age ranges from ~10 ka near the valley head, to>8 Ma at its diffuse terminus in central Beacon Valley (where it abuts opposing buried ice that originated from Taylor Glacier; e.g., Sugden et al., 1995). The dating me...
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