Resolving aspects of past glaciations by dating exposed rock surfaces using aluminum-26 and beryllium-10 produced in situ: Wright Valley, Southern Victoria Land, Antarctica and the southeasternmost ridge of the Appalachian mountains, northeast United States

• Main Author: Macchiaroli, Paola Emilia
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: ScholarlyCommons 1995
• Subjects: Geology; Victoria Land; Wright Valley; Orestes; Wilson Piedmont Glacier; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://repository.upenn.edu/dissertations/AAI9543117

Recent histories of glaciations along the southeasternmost ridge of the Appalachian Mountains, United States and along the Wright Valley, Antarctica were determined from concentrations of $\sp{26}$Al(T$\sb{1/2}$ = 0.7 Ma) and $\sp{10}$Be (T$\sb{1/2}$ = 1.5 Ma) in quartz produced by cosmic-rays. Meas...