Glacier change and paleoclimate applications of cosmogenic-nuclide exposure dating

G Balco - Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, 2020 - annualreviews.org
Surface exposure dating using cosmic-ray-produced nuclides has been applied to
determine the age of thousands of landforms produced by alpine glaciers in mountain areas …

Reversible ice sheet thinning in the Amundsen Sea Embayment during the Late Holocene

G Balco, N Brown, K Nichols… - The Cryosphere …, 2022 - tc.copernicus.org
Cosmogenic-nuclide concentrations in subglacial bedrock cores show that the West
Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) at a site between Thwaites and Pope Glaciers was at least 35 m …

[HTML][HTML] New last glacial maximum ice thickness constraints for the Weddell Sea Embayment, Antarctica

KA Nichols, BM Goehring, G Balco, JS Johnson… - The …, 2019 - tc.copernicus.org
We describe new Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) ice thickness constraints for three locations
spanning the Weddell Sea Embayment (WSE) of Antarctica. Samples collected from the …

Comparing glacial‐geological evidence and model simulations of ice sheet change since the last glacial period in the Amundsen Sea sector of Antarctica

JS Johnson, D Pollard, PL Whitehouse… - Journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Since the Last Glacial Maximum∼ 20,000 years ago, the Antarctic Ice Sheet has
undergone extensive changes, resulting in a much smaller present‐day configuration …

Isolation of quartz for cosmogenic in situ analysis

KA Nichols, BM Goehring - Geochronology, 2019 - gchron.copernicus.org
Froth flotation is a commonly used procedure for separating feldspars and micas from quartz
for the preparation of quartz mineral separates to carry out cosmogenic nuclide analysis …

Antarctic Ice Sheet paleo-constraint database

BS Lecavalier, L Tarasov, G Balco… - Earth System …, 2022 - essd.copernicus.org
We present a database of observational constraints on past Antarctic ice sheet changes
during the last glacial cycle intended to consolidate the observations that represent our …

Glacial history of Pyramid Trough, southern McMurdo Sound, Antarctica: Constraints on Koettlitz Glacier during the last glacial maximum and termination

T Walther, B Hall, G Denton, C Hendy - Quaternary Science Advances, 2023 - Elsevier
Reconstructions of past glacier extent and timing afford perspective on the efficacy of
mechanisms thought to control ice-sheet fluctuations. Here, we present data concerning the …

[HTML][HTML] Impacts of post-depositional processing on nitrate isotopes in the snow and the overlying atmosphere at Summit, Greenland

Z Jiang, J Savarino, B Alexander, J Erbland… - The …, 2022 - tc.copernicus.org
The effect of post-depositional processing on the preservation of snow nitrate isotopes at
Summit, Greenland, remains a subject of debate and is relevant to the quantitative …

Paired 14C-10Be exposure ages from Mount Murphy, West Antarctica: Implications for accurate and precise deglacial chronologies

JR Adams, DH Rood, K Wilcken… - Geochronology …, 2024 - gchron.copernicus.org
Cosmogenic-nuclide surface exposure ages provide empirical data for testing the accuracy
of models simulating the timing and pace of ice sheet response to a warming climate …

A decade of in situ cosmogenic 14C in Antarctica

KA Nichols - Annals of Glaciology, 2022 - cambridge.org
Cosmogenic nuclide measurements in glacial deposits extend our knowledge of glacier
chronologies beyond the observational record. The short half-life of in situ cosmogenic 14C …