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https://doi.org/10.5194/gchron-4-311-2022
https://doi.org/10.5194/gchron-4-311-2022
Research article
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25 May 2022
Research article |  | 25 May 2022

Reconciling the apparent absence of a Last Glacial Maximum alpine glacial advance, Yukon Territory, Canada, through cosmogenic beryllium-10 and carbon-14 measurements

Brent M. Goehring, Brian Menounos, Gerald Osborn, Adam Hawkins, and Brent Ward

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We explored surface exposure dating with two nuclides to date two sets of moraines from the Yukon Territory and explain the reasoning for the observed ages. Results suggest multiple processes, including preservation of nuclides from a prior exposure period, and later erosion of the moraines is required to explain the data. Our results only allow for the older moraines to date to Marine Isotope Stage 3 or 4 and the younger moraines to date to the very earliest Holocene.