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10Be age control of glaciation in the Beartooth Mountains, USA, from the latest Pleistocene through the Holocene
Department of Geology, Rowan University, Glassboro, NJ, USA
Elizabeth G. Ceperley
Department of Geoscience, University of Wisconsin – Madison, Madison, WI, USA
Claire Vavrus
Department of Geoscience, University of Wisconsin – Madison, Madison, WI, USA
Shaun A. Marcott
Department of Geoscience, University of Wisconsin – Madison, Madison, WI, USA
Jeremy D. Shakun
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA, USA
Marc W. Caffee
Department of Physics and Astronomy, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA
Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA
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Short summary
Deposits left behind by past glacial activity provide insight into the previous size and behavior of glaciers and act as another line of evidence for past climate. Here we present new age control for glacial deposits in the mountains of Montana and Wyoming, United States. While some deposits indicate glacial activity within the last 2000 years, others are shown to be older than previously thought, thus redefining the extent of regional Holocene glaciation.
Deposits left behind by past glacial activity provide insight into the previous size and...
