Holocene glacier fluctuations

ON Solomina, RS Bradley, DA Hodgson… - Quaternary Science …, 2015 - Elsevier
A global overview of glacier advances and retreats (grouped by regions and by millennia)
for the Holocene is compiled from previous studies. The reconstructions of glacier …

The Zealandia Switch: Ice age climate shifts viewed from Southern Hemisphere moraines

GH Denton, AE Putnam, JL Russell, DJA Barrell… - Quaternary Science …, 2021 - Elsevier
Two fundamental questions about the ice-age climate system await satisfactory resolution.
First, if summer solar radiation intensity truly controls the orbital signature of the last glacial …

Glacier fluctuations during the past 2000 years

ON Solomina, RS Bradley, V Jomelli… - Quaternary Science …, 2016 - Elsevier
A global compilation of glacier advances and retreats for the past two millennia grouped by
17 regions (excluding Antarctica) highlights the nature of glacier fluctuations during the late …

Cosmogenic nuclide techniques

JM Schaefer, AT Codilean, JK Willenbring… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Cosmogenic nuclide techniques have advanced the geosciences by providing tools for
exposure age dating, burial dating, quantification of denudation rates and more. Advances …

A 10Be production‐rate calibration for the Arctic

NE Young, JM Schaefer, JP Briner… - Journal of Quaternary …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
ABSTRACT We present a Baffin Bay 10Be production‐rate calibration derived from glacial
deposits in western Greenland and Baffin Island, and test our results against published …

Heinrich summers

GH Denton, S Toucanne, AE Putnam… - Quaternary Science …, 2022 - Elsevier
Millennial-scale climate oscillations of the last ice age registered in Greenland and Antarctic
ice cores did not always vary in unison. A striking example is that the strongest Antarctic …

Human-induced changes in the distribution of rainfall

AE Putnam, WS Broecker - Science Advances, 2017 - science.org
A likely consequence of global warming will be the redistribution of Earth's rain belts,
affecting water availability for many of Earth's inhabitants. We consider three ways in which …

Holocene glacier fluctuations in Patagonia are modulated by summer insolation intensity and paced by Southern Annular Mode-like variability

SA Reynhout, EA Sagredo, MR Kaplan… - Quaternary Science …, 2019 - Elsevier
Alpine glaciers are sensitive indicators of changes in climate, and their ubiquity in
mountainous regions make them valuable proxies for terrestrial climate reconstructions …

Atom counting with accelerator mass spectrometry

W Kutschera, AJT Jull, M Paul, A Wallner - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2023 - APS
Accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) was born in the late 1970s, when it was realized at
nuclear physics laboratories that the accelerator systems can be used as a sensitive mass …

A review of topographic controls on moraine distribution

ID Barr, H Lovell - Geomorphology, 2014 - Elsevier
Ice-marginal moraines are often used to reconstruct the dimensions of former ice masses,
which are then used as proxies for palaeoclimate. This approach relies on the assumption …