Rapid thinning of the Laurentide Ice Sheet in coastal Maine, USA, during late Heinrich Stadial 1
We report that few data are available to infer the thinning rate of the Laurentide Ice Sheet (LIS) through the last deglaciation, despite its importance for constraining past ice sheet response to climate warming. We measured 31 cosmogenic 10 Be exposure ages in samples collected on coastal mountain...
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ftosti:oai:osti.gov:1905195 2023-07-30T04:04:11+02:00 Rapid thinning of the Laurentide Ice Sheet in coastal Maine, USA, during late Heinrich Stadial 1 Koester, Alexandria J. Shakun, Jeremy D. Bierman, Paul R. Davis, P. Thompson Corbett, Lee B. Braun, Duane Zimmerman, Susan R. 2022-12-20 application/pdf http://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1905195 https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1905195 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2017.03.005 unknown http://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1905195 https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1905195 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2017.03.005 doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2017.03.005 58 GEOSCIENCES 2022 ftosti https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2017.03.005 2023-07-11T10:17:01Z We report that few data are available to infer the thinning rate of the Laurentide Ice Sheet (LIS) through the last deglaciation, despite its importance for constraining past ice sheet response to climate warming. We measured 31 cosmogenic 10 Be exposure ages in samples collected on coastal mountainsides in Acadia National Park and from the slightly inland Pineo Ridge moraine complex, a ~100-km-long glaciomarine delta, to constrain the timing and rate of LIS thinning and subsequent retreat in coastal Maine. Samples collected along vertical transects in Acadia National Park have indistinguishable exposure ages over a 300 m range of elevation, suggesting that rapid, century-scale thinning occurred at 15.2 ± 0.7 ka, similar to the timing of abrupt thinning inferred from cosmogenic exposure ages at Mt. Katahdin in central Maine (Davis et al., 2015). This rapid ice sheet surface lowering, which likely occurred during the latter part of the cold Heinrich Stadial 1 event (19–14.6 ka), may have been due to enhanced ice-shelf melt and calving in the Gulf of Maine, perhaps related to regional oceanic warming associated with a weakened Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation at this time. The ice margin subsequently stabilized at the Pineo Ridge moraine complex until 14.5 ± 0.7 ka, near the onset of Bølling Interstadial warming. Our 10 Be ages are substantially younger than marine radiocarbon constraints on LIS retreat in the coastal lowlands, suggesting that the deglacial marine reservoir effect in this area was ~1,200 14 C years, perhaps also related to the sluggish Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation during Heinrich Stadial 1. Other/Unknown Material Ice Sheet Ice Shelf SciTec Connect (Office of Scientific and Technical Information - OSTI, U.S. Department of Energy) Quaternary Science Reviews 163 180 192 |
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We report that few data are available to infer the thinning rate of the Laurentide Ice Sheet (LIS) through the last deglaciation, despite its importance for constraining past ice sheet response to climate warming. We measured 31 cosmogenic 10 Be exposure ages in samples collected on coastal mountainsides in Acadia National Park and from the slightly inland Pineo Ridge moraine complex, a ~100-km-long glaciomarine delta, to constrain the timing and rate of LIS thinning and subsequent retreat in coastal Maine. Samples collected along vertical transects in Acadia National Park have indistinguishable exposure ages over a 300 m range of elevation, suggesting that rapid, century-scale thinning occurred at 15.2 ± 0.7 ka, similar to the timing of abrupt thinning inferred from cosmogenic exposure ages at Mt. Katahdin in central Maine (Davis et al., 2015). This rapid ice sheet surface lowering, which likely occurred during the latter part of the cold Heinrich Stadial 1 event (19–14.6 ka), may have been due to enhanced ice-shelf melt and calving in the Gulf of Maine, perhaps related to regional oceanic warming associated with a weakened Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation at this time. The ice margin subsequently stabilized at the Pineo Ridge moraine complex until 14.5 ± 0.7 ka, near the onset of Bølling Interstadial warming. Our 10 Be ages are substantially younger than marine radiocarbon constraints on LIS retreat in the coastal lowlands, suggesting that the deglacial marine reservoir effect in this area was ~1,200 14 C years, perhaps also related to the sluggish Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation during Heinrich Stadial 1. |
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Koester, Alexandria J. Shakun, Jeremy D. Bierman, Paul R. Davis, P. Thompson Corbett, Lee B. Braun, Duane Zimmerman, Susan R. |
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Koester, Alexandria J. Shakun, Jeremy D. Bierman, Paul R. Davis, P. Thompson Corbett, Lee B. Braun, Duane Zimmerman, Susan R. |
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Rapid thinning of the Laurentide Ice Sheet in coastal Maine, USA, during late Heinrich Stadial 1 |
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Rapid thinning of the Laurentide Ice Sheet in coastal Maine, USA, during late Heinrich Stadial 1 |
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Rapid thinning of the Laurentide Ice Sheet in coastal Maine, USA, during late Heinrich Stadial 1 |
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Rapid thinning of the Laurentide Ice Sheet in coastal Maine, USA, during late Heinrich Stadial 1 |
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Rapid thinning of the Laurentide Ice Sheet in coastal Maine, USA, during late Heinrich Stadial 1 |
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rapid thinning of the laurentide ice sheet in coastal maine, usa, during late heinrich stadial 1 |
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