Coeval fluctuations of the Greenland ice sheet and a local glacier, central East Greenland, during late glacial and early Holocene time

• Published in: Geophysical Research Letters
• Main Authors: Levy, Laura B., Kelly, Meredith A., Lowell, Thomas V., Hall, Brenda L., Howley, Jennifer A., Smith, Colby A.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: Be dating; Greenland; Late glacial; Moraines; Preboreal; Younger Dryas; Milne Land; East Greenland; glacier; Greenland ice core; Ice cap; ice core; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: https://pure.au.dk/portal/en/publications/5c1c63f5-af87-4470-94c9-31da9c7b512a; https://doi.org/10.1002/2015GL067108

We present a 10 Be chronology of late glacial to early Holocene fluctuations of a Greenland ice sheet outlet glacier and the adjacent Milne Land ice cap in central East Greenland. Ages of boulders on bedrock indicate that both ice masses receded during the Younger Dryas (YD), likely due to rising su...