Build-up and chronology of blue ice moraines in Queen Maud Land, Antarctica

• Published in: Quaternary Science Advances
• Main Authors: Naki Akçar, Serdar Yeşilyurt, Kristina Hippe, Marcus Christl, Christof Vockenhuber, Vural Yavuz, Burcu Özsoy
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier 2020
• Subjects: Blue ice moraine; Surface exposure dating; Cosmogenic nuclide; Inheritance; Sør rondane; Geography. Anthropology. Recreation; G; Archaeology; CC1-960; Queen Maud Land; Sør-Rondane; Sør Rondane Mountains; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.qsa.2020.100012; https://doaj.org/article/7d80b7d59b8645749d9908e178ee3104

Blue ice moraines are common supraglacial landforms in Antarctica and they are considered to record the ice volume fluctuations. In this study, we use photogrammetry and the analysis of multiple cosmogenic nuclides (10Be, 26Al, and in-situ 14C) in boulders on three blue ice moraines to explore the t...