Younger Dryas ice margin retreat in Greenland: new evidence from southwestern Greenland
Younger Dryas ice margin retreat in Greenland: new evidence from southwestern Greenland
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格陵兰岛新仙女木冰缘退缩:来自格陵兰岛西南部的新证据
DOI:
10.5194/cp-2020-57
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发表时间:
2020
影响因子:
4.3
通讯作者:
K. Kjær
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作者:
S. Funder;Anita L. Sørensen;N. K. Larsen;A. Bjørk;J. Briner;J. Olsen;A. Schomacker;L. Levy;K. Kjær
Abstract. To date the final stage in deglaciation of the Greenland
shelf, when a contiguous ice sheet margin on the inner shelf transitioned to
outlet glaciers in troughs with intervening ice-free areas, we generated
cosmogenic 10Be dates from bedrock knobs on six outlying islands along
a stretch of 300 km of the southwestern Greenland coast. Despite 10Be
inheritance influencing some dates, the ages generally support a Greenland
Ice Sheet (GrIS) margin that retreated off the inner shelf during the middle
Younger Dryas (YD) period. Published 10Be- and 14C-dated records
show that this history of the GrIS margin is seen in other parts of
Greenland but with large variations in the extent and speed of retreat,
sometimes even between neighbouring areas. Areas with a chronology extending
into the Allerød period show no marked ice margin change at the
Allerød–YD transition except in northernmost Greenland. In contrast,
landforms on the shelf (moraines and grounding zone wedges) have been
suggested to indicate YD readvances or long-lasting ice margin stillstands
on the middle shelf. However, these features have been dated primarily by
correlation with cold periods in the ice core temperature records.
Ice margin retreat during the middle and late YD is explained by advection
of warm subsurface water at the ice margin and by increased seasonality.
Our results therefore point to the complexity of the climate–ice margin
relation and to the urgent need for direct dating of the early deglaciation
history of Greenland.
DOI:
10.1177/0959683618777067
发表时间:
2018
期刊:
The Holocene
影响因子:
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作者:
Dyke L
通讯作者:
Dyke L