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

• Published in: The Cryosphere
• 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; East Antarctica; West Antarctica; Transantarctic Mountains; Bia; Princess Elizabeth Land; Grove Mountains; Antarc*; Antarctica; The Cryosphere
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-18-1647-2024; https://noa.gwlb.de/receive/cop_mods_00072763; https://noa.gwlb.de/servlets/MCRFileNodeServlet/cop_derivate_00070959/tc-18-1647-2024.pdf; https://tc.copernicus.org/articles/18/1647/2024/tc-18-1647-2024.pdf

The presence of exceptionally old ice and 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 Transantarctic Mountains, have been investigated for this purpose. Here, we prese...