Chronology for Fluctuations in Late Pleistocene Sierra Nevada Glaciers and Lakes

Mountain glaciers, because of their small size, are usually close to equilibrium with the local climate and thus should provide a test of whether temperature oscillations in Greenland late in the last glacial period are part of global-scale climate variability or are restricted to the North Atlantic...

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Main Authors: Phillips, Fred M., Zreda, Marek G., Benson, Larry, Plummer, Mitchell A., Elmore, David, Sharma, Pankaj
Format: Text
Language:unknown
Published: DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln 1996
Subjects:
Greenland
North Atlantic
Online Access:https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/usgsstaffpub/797
https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/context/usgsstaffpub/article/1806/viewcontent/Benson_SCIENCE_1996_Chronology_for_fluctuations.pdf
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Summary:Mountain glaciers, because of their small size, are usually close to equilibrium with the local climate and thus should provide a test of whether temperature oscillations in Greenland late in the last glacial period are part of global-scale climate variability or are restricted to the North Atlantic region. Correlation of cosmogenic chlorine-36 dates on Sierra Nevada moraines with a continuous radiocarbon-dated sediment record from nearby Owens Lake shows that Sierra Nevada glacial advances were associated with Heinrich events 5, 3, 2, and 1.

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