Cosmogenic 10Be ages from the Meirs and Garwood Valleys, Denton Hills, West Antarctica, suggest an absence in LGM Ice Sheet expansion

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dc.contributor.authorFink, Den_AU
dc.contributor.authorJoy, Ken_AU
dc.contributor.authorCarson, Nen_AU
dc.contributor.authorStorey, BCen_AU
dc.date.accessioned2017-02-15T04:42:42Zen_AU
dc.date.available2017-02-15T04:42:42Zen_AU
dc.date.issued2014-04-27en_AU
dc.date.statistics2017-02-15en_AU
dc.description.abstractIt has been hypothesised that during interglacials, thinning of the Ross Ice Shelf allowed a more open water environment with increased local precipitation. This resulted in outlet glaciers, which drain the Transantarctic Mountains and fed by the East Antarctic Ice Sheet, advancing during moist warmer periods, apparently out of phase with colder arid dry periods. Significantly the ice core record during these warm periods also shows increased accumulation continent wide The geomorphology of the Denton Hills in the Royal Society Range, West Antarctica, is a result of Miocene fluvial incision reworked by subsequent glacial advances throughout the Quaternary. The Garwood and Miers glacial valleys drain ice across the Denton Hills into the Shelf, and should thus show maximum extent during interstadials. To understand the chronology of late Quaternary glaciations, 15 granitic boulders from terminal moraines were sampled for 10Be and 26Al cosmogenic dating. Obtaining reliable exposure ages of erratics within moraines that represent timing of deposition (i.e. glacial advances) is problematic in polar regions, where glacial activity is principally controlled by ice sheet dynamics. Recycling of previously exposed debris, uncertainty in provenance of glacially transported boulders and a lack of a post-depositional hydrologic process to remove previously exposed material from a valley system, leads to ambiguities in multiple exposure ages from a single coeval glacial landform. More importantly, cold-based ice advance can leave a landform unmodified resulting in young erratics deposited on bedrock that shows weathering and/or inconsistent age-altitude relationships. Primarily, inheritance becomes a difficulty in qualifying exposure ages from polar regions. Preliminary results from the Garwood and Miers Valleys indicate that glaciers in the Denton Hills had begun to retreat from their last maximum positions no later than 23-37 ka, and thus the local last glacial maximum occurred prior to the Antarctic LGM (18-22 ka). No evidence based on cosmogenic ages for post-LGM or Holocene advances were found. These results support an extensive exposure age data set from the nearby Darwin-Hatherton Glacier system that indicates an absence of EAIS expansion across the Transantarctic Mnts during the global LGM period.en_AU
dc.identifier.citationFink, D., Joy, K., Carson, N., & Storey, B. (April, 2014). Cosmogenic 10Be ages from the Meirs and Garwood Valleys, Denton Hills, West Antarctica, suggest an absence in LGM Ice Sheet expansion. Presentation to the European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2014, Vienna, Austria, 27 April – 02 May 2014.en_AU
dc.identifier.conferenceenddate2 May 2014en_AU
dc.identifier.conferencenameEuropean Geosciences Union General Assembly 2014en_AU
dc.identifier.conferenceplaceVienna, Austriaen_AU
dc.identifier.conferencestartdate27 April 2014en_AU
dc.identifier.govdoc7872en_AU
dc.identifier.urihttps://www.egu2014.eu/home.htmlen_AU
dc.identifier.urihttp://apo.ansto.gov.au/dspace/handle/10238/8307en_AU
dc.language.isoenen_AU
dc.publisherEGU General Assemblyen_AU
dc.subjectGlaciersen_AU
dc.subjectAntarctic Oceanen_AU
dc.subjectIceen_AU
dc.subjectWateren_AU
dc.subjectQuaternary perioden_AU
dc.subjectPolar regionsen_AU
dc.titleCosmogenic 10Be ages from the Meirs and Garwood Valleys, Denton Hills, West Antarctica, suggest an absence in LGM Ice Sheet expansionen_AU
dc.typeConference Abstracten_AU
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