Lake and bog sediment records of Holocene climate and glacier variability in the Cordillera Vilcabamba of southern Peru

Authors

Avriel Schweinsberg¹ , Joseph Licciardi¹ , Donald Rodbell² , Nathan Stansell³

1. University of New Hampshire
2. Union College
3. Northern Illinois University

Conference / event

American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, December 2013 (San Francisco, CA, United States)

Poster summary

This poster presents the first continuous sedimentary archives of glacier and climate variability in the Cordillera Vilcabamba or southern Peru, which supplement existing 10Be moraine chronologies in the region.

Keywords

climate variability, cosmogenic dating, radiocarbon, clastic flux

Research areas

Earth Sciences

References

1. Balco, G., 2011. Contributions and unrealized potential contributions of cosmogenic-nuclide exposure dating to glacier chronology, 1990–2010. Quaternary Science Reviews 30, 3–27.
2. Blaauw, M., 2010. Methods and code for “classical” age-modelling of radiocarbon sequences. Quaternary Geochronology 5, 512 - 518.
3. Harbor, J., Warburton, J., 1992. Glaciation and denudation rates. Nature 356, 751 - 751.
4. Licciardi, J.M., Schaefer, J.M., Taggart, J.R., Lund, D.C., 2009. Holocene Glacier Fluctuations in the Peruvian Andes Indicate Northern Climate Linkages. Science 325, 1677–1679.
5. Rodbell, D.T., Seltzer, G.O., Mark, B.G., Smith, J.A., Abbott, M.B., 2008. Clastic sediment flux to tropical Andean lakes: records of glaciation and soil erosion. Quaternary Science Reviews 27, 1612–1626.
6. Stansell, N.D., Rodbell, D.T., Abbott, M.B., Mark, B.G., 2013. Proglacial lake sediment records of Holocene climate change in the western Cordillera of Peru. Quaternary Science Reviews 70, 1–14.

Funding

1. National Science Foundation
2. Geological Society of America

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Competing interests

No competing interests were disclosed.

Data availability statement

The datasets generated during and/or analyzed during the current study are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.

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