Journal
JOURNAL OF QUATERNARY SCIENCE
Volume 23, Issue 6-7, Pages 559-573Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/jqs.1202
Keywords
cosmogenic Be-10; luminescence; Last Glacial Maximum; Wurmian; Lateglacial
Funding
- ETH [0-20-624-92]
- Swiss Nationalfond [21-043469.95/1, 21-063988.00/1]
- Austrian Science Foundation (FWF) [P-15108-N06]
- German Science Foundation [He 722/32-1/2]
- [RA 383/13-1]
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Chronological data for glacier advances in the European Alps between the Last Interglacial (Eemian) and the Holocene are summarised (115 to 11 ka). During this time glaciers were most extensive, extending tens of kilometres out onto the forelands, between 30 and 18 ka, that is, synchronous with the global ice volume maximum of Marine Isotope Stage (MIS) 2. Evidence for ice expanding to just past the mountain front for an earlier major glacier advance comes from Swiss sites, where advances have been luminescence dated to MIS 5d (100 ka) and MIS 4 (70 ka). Up to now no Such evidence has been found in the Eastern Alps. By 18 ka, more than 80% of the Late Wurmian ice volume had gone. Subsequently glaciers readvanced, reaching into the upper reaches of the main valleys during the Lateglacial Gschnitz stadial, which likely occurred around 17 ka, with final moraine stabilisation no later than 15.4 ka. The link of the Egesen stadial with the Younger Dryas climate deterioration is supported by exposure ages from four sites as well as minimum-limiting radiocarbon dates from bogs within former glacier tongue areas. Key questions on the spatial and temporal variability of ice extents throughout the last glacial cycle have yet to be answered. Copyright (C) 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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