A Younger Dryas 1 re-advance of local glaciers in North Greenland
The Younger Dryas (YD) is a well-constrained cold event from 12,900 to 11,700 years ago but it remains unclear how the cooling and subsequent abrupt warming recorded in ice cores was translated into ice margin fluctuations in Greenland. Here we present 10Be surface exposure ages from three moraines...
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ftuglasgow:oai:eprints.gla.ac.uk:111461 2023-05-15T15:09:23+02:00 A Younger Dryas 1 re-advance of local glaciers in North Greenland Larsen, Nicolaj K. Funder, Svend Linge, Henriette Möller, Per Schomacker, Anders Fabel, Derek Xu, Sheng Kjær, Kurt H. 2016-09-01 text http://eprints.gla.ac.uk/111461/ http://eprints.gla.ac.uk/111461/7/111461.pdf en eng Elsevier http://eprints.gla.ac.uk/111461/7/111461.pdf Larsen, N. K., Funder, S., Linge, H., Möller, P., Schomacker, A., Fabel, D. <http://eprints.gla.ac.uk/view/author/5585.html> , Xu, S. <http://eprints.gla.ac.uk/view/author/12708.html> and Kjær, K. H. (2016) A Younger Dryas 1 re-advance of local glaciers in North Greenland. Quaternary Science Reviews <http://eprints.gla.ac.uk/view/journal_volume/Quaternary_Science_Reviews.html>, 147, pp. 47-58. (doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2015.10.036 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2015.10.036>) Articles PeerReviewed 2016 ftuglasgow https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2015.10.036 2020-01-10T00:59:38Z The Younger Dryas (YD) is a well-constrained cold event from 12,900 to 11,700 years ago but it remains unclear how the cooling and subsequent abrupt warming recorded in ice cores was translated into ice margin fluctuations in Greenland. Here we present 10Be surface exposure ages from three moraines in front of local glaciers on a 50 km stretch along the north coast of Greenland, facing the Arctic Ocean. Ten ages range from 11.6 ± 0.5 to.2 ± 0.9 ka with a mean age of 12.5 ± 0.7 ka after exclusion of two outliers. We consider this to be a minimum age for the abandonment of the moraines. The ages of the moraines are furthermore constrained using Optically Stimulated Luminescence (OSL) dating of epishelf sediments, which were deposited prior to the ice advance that formed the moraines, yielding a maximum age of 12.4 ± 0.6 ka, and bracketing the formation and subsequent abandonment of the moraines to within the interval 11.8-13.0 ka ago. This is the first time a synchronous YD glacier advance and subsequent retreat has been recorded for several independent glaciers in Greenland. In most other areas, there is no evidence for re-advance and glaciers were retreating during YD. We explain the different behaviour of the glaciers in northernmost Greenland as a function of their remoteness from the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), which in other areas has been held responsible for modifying the YD drop in temperatures. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Arctic Ocean glacier Greenland North Greenland University of Glasgow: Enlighten - Publications Arctic Arctic Ocean Greenland Quaternary Science Reviews 147 47 58 |
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The Younger Dryas (YD) is a well-constrained cold event from 12,900 to 11,700 years ago but it remains unclear how the cooling and subsequent abrupt warming recorded in ice cores was translated into ice margin fluctuations in Greenland. Here we present 10Be surface exposure ages from three moraines in front of local glaciers on a 50 km stretch along the north coast of Greenland, facing the Arctic Ocean. Ten ages range from 11.6 ± 0.5 to.2 ± 0.9 ka with a mean age of 12.5 ± 0.7 ka after exclusion of two outliers. We consider this to be a minimum age for the abandonment of the moraines. The ages of the moraines are furthermore constrained using Optically Stimulated Luminescence (OSL) dating of epishelf sediments, which were deposited prior to the ice advance that formed the moraines, yielding a maximum age of 12.4 ± 0.6 ka, and bracketing the formation and subsequent abandonment of the moraines to within the interval 11.8-13.0 ka ago. This is the first time a synchronous YD glacier advance and subsequent retreat has been recorded for several independent glaciers in Greenland. In most other areas, there is no evidence for re-advance and glaciers were retreating during YD. We explain the different behaviour of the glaciers in northernmost Greenland as a function of their remoteness from the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), which in other areas has been held responsible for modifying the YD drop in temperatures. |
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Larsen, Nicolaj K. Funder, Svend Linge, Henriette Möller, Per Schomacker, Anders Fabel, Derek Xu, Sheng Kjær, Kurt H. A Younger Dryas 1 re-advance of local glaciers in North Greenland |
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Larsen, Nicolaj K. Funder, Svend Linge, Henriette Möller, Per Schomacker, Anders Fabel, Derek Xu, Sheng Kjær, Kurt H. |
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A Younger Dryas 1 re-advance of local glaciers in North Greenland |
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A Younger Dryas 1 re-advance of local glaciers in North Greenland |
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A Younger Dryas 1 re-advance of local glaciers in North Greenland |
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http://eprints.gla.ac.uk/111461/7/111461.pdf Larsen, N. K., Funder, S., Linge, H., Möller, P., Schomacker, A., Fabel, D. <http://eprints.gla.ac.uk/view/author/5585.html> , Xu, S. <http://eprints.gla.ac.uk/view/author/12708.html> and Kjær, K. H. (2016) A Younger Dryas 1 re-advance of local glaciers in North Greenland. Quaternary Science Reviews <http://eprints.gla.ac.uk/view/journal_volume/Quaternary_Science_Reviews.html>, 147, pp. 47-58. (doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2015.10.036 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2015.10.036>) |
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