Brief communication: Identification of 140,000-year-old blue ice in Grove Mountains, East Antarctica, by krypton-81 dating

• Main Authors: Hu, Zhengyi, Jiang, Wei, Yan, Yuzhen, Huang, Yan, Tang, Xueyuan, Li, Lin, Ritterbusch, Florian, Yang, Guo-Min, Lu, Zheng-Tian, Shi, Guitao
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Copernicus Publications 2024
• Subjects: article; Verlagsveröffentlichung; Antarctic; Bia; East Antarctica; Grove Mountains; West Antarctica; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2023-2754; https://noa.gwlb.de/receive/cop_mods_00070813; https://noa.gwlb.de/servlets/MCRFileNodeServlet/cop_derivate_00069143/egusphere-2023-2754.pdf; https://egusphere.copernicus.org/preprints/2024/egusphere-2023-2754/egusphere-2023-2754.pdf

The presence of exceptionally old ice and the relative ease of access make Antarctic blue ice areas (BIAs) attractive paleoclimate archives. However, only a handful of BIAs, mostly situated in West Antarctica and along the Trans-Antarctic Mountains, have been investigated for this purpose. Here, we...