Developing a 'Little Ice Age' glacial chronology in the southern Peruvian Andes using lichenometry and cosmogenic beryllium-10 surface exposure dating

• Main Author: Taggart, Jean R
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: University of New Hampshire Scholars' Repository 2009
• Subjects: Geology; Paleoclimate Science; Patagonia; New Zealand; Ela; Fuller; New Glacier; glacier; glaciers; Alaska
• Online Access: https://scholars.unh.edu/thesis/498; https://scholars.unh.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1497&context=thesis

The timing and causes of tropical climate changes during the Holocene are important and unresolved issues in paleoclimatology. Glacier chronologies are crucial for discerning the role of the tropics in global climate change, but past glacier activity in this region remains poorly documented. In this...