A Chronology of Holocene and Little Ice Age Glacier Culminations of The
Earth and Planetary Science Letters 393 (2014) 220–230 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Earth and Planetary Science Letters www.elsevier.com/locate/epsl A chronology of Holocene and Little Ice Age glacier culminations of the Steingletscher, Central Alps, Switzerland, based on high-sensitivity beryllium-10 moraine dating ∗ Irene Schimmelpfennig a,b, , Joerg M. Schaefer a, Naki Akçar c, Tobias Koffman a,d, Susan Ivy-Ochs e, Roseanne Schwartz a, Robert C. Finkel f,g, Susan Zimmerman f, Christian Schlüchter c a Lamont–Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, Palisades, NY 10964, USA b Aix-Marseille Université, CNRS-IRD-Collège de France, UM 34 CEREGE, Aix-en-Provence, France c Institute of Geological Sciences, University of Bern, Switzerland d Department of Earth Sciences and Climate Change Institute, University of Maine, Orono, ME 04469, USA e Insitut für Teilchenphysik, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule, Zürich, Switzerland f Center for Accelerator Mass Spectrometry, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA 94550, USA g Earth and Planetary Science Department, University of California – Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA article info abstract Article history: The amplitude and timing of past glacier culminations are sensitive recorders of key climate events on a Received 27 November 2013 regional scale. Precisely dating young moraines using cosmogenic nuclides to investigate Holocene glacier Received in revised form 20 February 2014 chronologies has proven challenging, but progress in the high-sensitivity 10Be technique has recently Accepted 22 February 2014 been shown to enable the precise dating of moraines as young as a few hundred years. In this study we Available online xxxx use 10Be moraine dating to reconstruct culminations of the Steingletscher, a small mountain glacier in Editor: G.M.
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