DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2015.09.001
Scopus记录号: 2-s2.0-84941629291
论文题名: Cosmogenic 36Cl exposure ages reveal a 9.3 ka BP glacier advance and the Late Weichselian-Early Holocene glacial history of the Drangajökull region, northwest Iceland
作者: Brynjólfsson S. ; Schomacker A. ; Ingólfsson Ó. ; Keiding J.K.
刊名: Quaternary Science Reviews
ISSN: 2773791
出版年: 2015
卷: 126 起始页码: 140
结束页码: 157
语种: 英语
英文关键词: 9.3 ka event
; Block field
; Cosmogenic exposure age
; Deglaciation
; Drangajökull ice cap
; Erratic boulder
; Moraine
Scopus关键词: Geochronology
; Glacial geology
; Glaciers
; Isotopes
; Landforms
; Snow
; 9.3 ka event
; Block field
; Cosmogenic exposure
; Deglaciations
; Erratic boulder
; Ice-caps
; Moraine
; Ice
; boulder
; chlorine isotope
; cosmogenic radionuclide
; deglaciation
; dynamic analysis
; erratic
; geochronology
; glacial history
; glacier advance
; Holocene
; ice cap
; ice sheet
; meridional circulation
; moraine
; Weichselian
; Drangajokull
; Iceland
英文摘要: We present twenty-four new cosmogenic isotope (36Cl) surface exposure ages from erratic boulders, moraine boulders and glacially eroded bedrock that constrain the late Weichselian to Holocene glacial history of the Drangajökull region, northwest Iceland. The results suggest a topographically controlled ice sheet over the Vestfir{eth}ir (Westfjords) peninsula during the last glaciation. Cold based non-erosive sectors of the ice sheet covered most of the mountains while fjords and valleys were occupied with erosive, warm-based ice.Old36Cl exposure ages from highlands and mountain plateaux (L8; 76.5 ka and H1; 41.6 ka) in combination with younger erratic boulders (L7; 26.2 and K1-K4; 15.0-13.8 ka) superimposed on such surfaces suggest the presence of non-erosive ice over uplands and plateaux in the Vestfir{eth}ir peninsula during the last glaciation. Glacially scoured terrain and erratic boulders yielding younger exposure ages (L1-L6; 11.3-9.1 ka and R1, R6-R7; 10.6-9.4 ka) in the lowland areas indicate that the valleys and fjords of the Vestfir{eth}ir peninsula were occupied by warm-based, dynamic ice during the last glaciation.The deglaciation of mountain Leirufjall by 26.2 ka BP suggests that ice thinning and deglaciation of some mountains and plateaux preceded any significant lateral retreat of the ice sheet. Subsequently this initial ice thinning was followed by break-up of the shelf based ice sheet off Vestfir{eth}ir about 15 ka BP. Hence, the new exposure ages suggest a stepwise asynchronous deglaciation on land, following the shelf break-up with some valleys and most of the highlands, ice free by 14-15 ka BP.The outermost moraine at the mouth of Leirufjörour is dated to 9.3 ka BP, and we suggest the moraine to be formed by a glacier re-advance in response to a cooler climate forced by the reduced Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation at around 9.3 ka BP. A system of moraines proximal to the 9.3 ka moraine in Leirufjör{eth}ur as well as a 9.4 ka deglaciation age in the coastal area of Reykjarfjör{eth}ur suggest that an extensive ice cap persisted over the eastern Vestfiroir peninsula at least until c. 9 ka BP. © 2015 Published by Elsevier Ltd. Citation statistics:
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标识符: http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/59815
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作者单位: Department of Geology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Sem Sælands veg 1, Trondheim, Norway; Institute of Earth Sciences, University of Iceland, Sturlugata 7, Reykjavík, Askja, Iceland; Icelandic Institute of Natural History, Borgum vio Norourslóo, Akureyri, Iceland; Centre for GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Øster Voldgade 5-7, Copenhagen K., Denmark; The University Centre in Svalbard (UNIS), Box 156, Longyearbyen, Norway; Geological Survey of Norway, P.O. Box 6315 Sluppen, Trondheim, Norway
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Brynjólfsson S.,Schomacker A.,Ingólfsson Ó.,et al. Cosmogenic 36Cl exposure ages reveal a 9.3 ka BP glacier advance and the Late Weichselian-Early Holocene glacial history of the Drangajökull region, northwest Iceland[J]. Quaternary Science Reviews,2015-01-01,126