The Neoglacial History of Robson Glacier, British Columbia.

• Main Authors: Luckman, Brian, Masiokas, Mariano, Nicolussi, Kurt
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: NRC Research Press (a division of Canadian Science Publishing) 2017
• Subjects: Robson Glacier
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1807/78888; http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/abs/10.1139/cjes-2016-0187

As glaciers in the Canadian Rockies recede glacier forefields continue to yield subfossil wood from sites overridden by these glaciers during the Holocene. Robson Glacier in British Columbia formerly extended below treeline and recession over the last century has progressively revealed a number of buried forest sites which are providing one of the more complete records of glacier history in the Canadian Rockies during the latter half of the Holocene. The glacier was advancing ca 5.5km upvalley of the Little Ice Age terminus ca. 5.26 cal ka BP; at sites ca. 2km upvalley ca. 4.02 and ca. 3.55 cal ka.BP and 0.5-1 km upvalley between 1140 and 1350 A.D. There is also limited evidence based on detrital wood of an additional period of glacier advance ca 3.24 cal ka BP. This record is more similar to glacier histories further west in British Columbia than elsewhere in the Rockies and provides the first evidence for a post-Hypsithermal glacier advance at ca. 5.26 cal ka BP in the Rockies. The utilization of the wiggle-matching approach using multiple 14C dates from sample locations determined by dendrochronological analyses enabled the recognition of 14C outliers and an increase in the precision and accuracy of the dating of glacier advances. The accepted manuscript in pdf format is listed with the files at the bottom of this page. The presentation of the authors' names and (or) special characters in the title of the manuscript may differ slightly between what is listed on this page and what is listed in the pdf file of the accepted manuscript; that in the pdf file of the accepted manuscript is what was submitted by the author.