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Reconciling the apparent absence of a Last Glacial Maximum alpine glacial advance, Yukon Territory, Canada, through cosmogenic beryllium-10 and carbon-14 measurements
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA 70118, USA
Brian Menounos
Geography Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Northern British Columbia, Prince George, BC, Canada
Gerald Osborn
Department of Geoscience, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada
Adam Hawkins
Geography Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Northern British Columbia, Prince George, BC, Canada
Brent Ward
Department of Earth Sciences, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada
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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.
We explored surface exposure dating with two nuclides to date two sets of moraines from the...
