Clim. Past Discuss., doi:10.5194/cp-2017-25, 2017 Manuscript under review for journal Clim. Past Discussion started: 28 February 2017 c Author(s) 2017. CC-BY 3.0 License. Atmospheric gas records from Taylor Glacier, Antarctica, reveal ancient ice with ages spanning the entire last glacial cycle Daniel Baggenstos1,*, Thomas K. Bauska2, Jeffrey P. Severinghaus1, James E. Lee2, Hinrich Schaefer3, Christo Buizert2, Edward J. Brook2, Sarah Shackleton1, and Vasilii V. Petrenko4 1Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO), University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA. 2College of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, Oregon State University (OSU), Corvallis, OR, 97331, USA. 3National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research Ltd (NIWA), PO Box 14901, Kilbirnie, 301 Evans Bay Parade, Wellington, New Zealand. 4Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627, USA. *Current address: Climate and Environmental Physics, University of Bern, Switzerland. Correspondence to:
[email protected] Abstract. Old ice for paleo-environmental studies, traditionally accessed through deep core drilling on domes and ridges on the large ice sheets, can also be retrieved at the surface from ice sheet margins and blue ice areas. The practically unlimited amount of ice available at these sites satisfies a need in the community for studies of trace components requiring large sample volumes. For margin sites to be useful as ancient ice archives, the ice stratigraphy needs to be understood and age models 5 need to be established. We present measurements of trapped gases in ice from Taylor Glacier, Antarctica, to date the ice 18 and assess the completeness of the stratigraphic section.