Latest Pleistocene and Holocene glacier fluctuations in southernmost Tierra del Fuego, Argentina

• Published in: Quaternary Science Reviews
• Main Authors: Menounos, Brian, Clague, John J., Osborn, Gerald, Thompson Davis, P., Ponce, Juan Federico, Goehring, Brent, Maurer, Malyssa, Rabassa, Jorge Oscar, Coronato, Andrea Maria Josefa, Marr, Rob
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier
• Subjects: Late Pleistocene; Holocene; Cirques; Tierra del Fuego; Glacier Fluctuations; Patagonia; Surface Exposure Dating; Tephrochronology; https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1.5; https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1; Antarctic; The Antarctic; Argentina; Hudson; Ushuaia; Antarc*
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11336/26740

Some researchers propose that summer insolation controls long-term changes in glacier extent during the Holocene. If this hypothesis is correct, the record of glacier fluctuations at high latitudes in the Southern Hemisphere should differ from that in the Northern Hemisphere. Although the chronology...