Earliest Holocene south Greenland ice sheet retreat within its late Holocene extent
Early Holocene summer warmth drove dramatic Greenland ice sheet (GIS) retreat. Subsequent insolation-driven cooling caused GIS margin readvance to late Holocene maxima, from which ice margins are now retreating. We use ¹⁰Be surface exposure ages from four locations between 69.4°N and 61.2°N to date...
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ftoregonstate:ir.library.oregonstate.edu:5t34sm35g 2024-04-14T08:12:05+00:00 Earliest Holocene south Greenland ice sheet retreat within its late Holocene extent Carlson, Anders E. Winsor, Kelsey Ullman, David J. Brook, Edward J. Hood, Dylan H. Axford, Yarrow LeGrande, Allegra N. Anslow, Faron S. Sinclair, Gaylen College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences https://ir.library.oregonstate.edu/concern/articles/5t34sm35g English [eng] eng unknown American Geophysical Union https://ir.library.oregonstate.edu/concern/articles/5t34sm35g Copyright Not Evaluated Article ftoregonstate 2024-03-21T15:41:55Z Early Holocene summer warmth drove dramatic Greenland ice sheet (GIS) retreat. Subsequent insolation-driven cooling caused GIS margin readvance to late Holocene maxima, from which ice margins are now retreating. We use ¹⁰Be surface exposure ages from four locations between 69.4°N and 61.2°N to date when in the early Holocene south to west GIS margins retreated to within these late Holocene maximum extents. We find that this occurred at 11.1 ± 0.2 ka to 10.6 ± 0.5 ka in south Greenland, significantly earlier than previous estimates, and 6.8 ± 0.1 ka to 7.9 ± 0.1 ka in southwest to west Greenland, consistent with existing ¹⁰Be ages. At least in south Greenland, these ¹⁰Be ages likely provide a minimum constraint for when on a multicentury timescale summer temperatures after the last deglaciation warmed above late Holocene temperatures in the early Holocene. Current south Greenland ice margin retreat suggests that south Greenland may have now warmed to or above earliest Holocene summer temperatures. Keywords: Early Holocene climate, Greenland ice sheet, Cosmogenic dating Article in Journal/Newspaper Greenland Ice Sheet ScholarsArchive@OSU (Oregon State University) Greenland |
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Early Holocene summer warmth drove dramatic Greenland ice sheet (GIS) retreat. Subsequent insolation-driven cooling caused GIS margin readvance to late Holocene maxima, from which ice margins are now retreating. We use ¹⁰Be surface exposure ages from four locations between 69.4°N and 61.2°N to date when in the early Holocene south to west GIS margins retreated to within these late Holocene maximum extents. We find that this occurred at 11.1 ± 0.2 ka to 10.6 ± 0.5 ka in south Greenland, significantly earlier than previous estimates, and 6.8 ± 0.1 ka to 7.9 ± 0.1 ka in southwest to west Greenland, consistent with existing ¹⁰Be ages. At least in south Greenland, these ¹⁰Be ages likely provide a minimum constraint for when on a multicentury timescale summer temperatures after the last deglaciation warmed above late Holocene temperatures in the early Holocene. Current south Greenland ice margin retreat suggests that south Greenland may have now warmed to or above earliest Holocene summer temperatures. Keywords: Early Holocene climate, Greenland ice sheet, Cosmogenic dating |
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Carlson, Anders E. Winsor, Kelsey Ullman, David J. Brook, Edward J. Hood, Dylan H. Axford, Yarrow LeGrande, Allegra N. Anslow, Faron S. Sinclair, Gaylen |
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Carlson, Anders E. Winsor, Kelsey Ullman, David J. Brook, Edward J. Hood, Dylan H. Axford, Yarrow LeGrande, Allegra N. Anslow, Faron S. Sinclair, Gaylen Earliest Holocene south Greenland ice sheet retreat within its late Holocene extent |
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Carlson, Anders E. Winsor, Kelsey Ullman, David J. Brook, Edward J. Hood, Dylan H. Axford, Yarrow LeGrande, Allegra N. Anslow, Faron S. Sinclair, Gaylen |
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Carlson, Anders E. |
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Earliest Holocene south Greenland ice sheet retreat within its late Holocene extent |
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Earliest Holocene south Greenland ice sheet retreat within its late Holocene extent |
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Earliest Holocene south Greenland ice sheet retreat within its late Holocene extent |
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Earliest Holocene south Greenland ice sheet retreat within its late Holocene extent |
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Earliest Holocene south Greenland ice sheet retreat within its late Holocene extent |
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earliest holocene south greenland ice sheet retreat within its late holocene extent |
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American Geophysical Union |
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Greenland Ice Sheet |
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Greenland Ice Sheet |
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