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Application of 14C AMS Dating to the Chronology of Holocene Glacier Fluctuations in the High Arctic, With Special Reference to Leffert Glacier, Ellesmere Island, Canada*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2016

Weston Blake Jr
Weston Blake Jr*
Affiliation:
Geological Survey of Canada, 601 Booth Street Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0E8, Canada
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A series of radiocarbon age determinations obtained by Accelerator Mass Spectrometry (AMS) shows that the front of Leffert Glacier, a major outlet glacier from the Prince of Wales Icefield, Ellesmere Island, was 18+ km behind (west of) its present position for a period of at least 1500 radiocarbon years. A subsequent readvance occurred close to 2000 radiocarbon years ago, as a consequence of the climatic cooling that followed the warm Hypsithermal Interval. A number of other glaciers in the region appear to have behaved in similar fashion.

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II. Carbon Cycle in the Environment
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Radiocarbon , Volume 31 , Issue 3: June 20-25, 1988 Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia , 1989 , pp. 570 - 578
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Copyright © The American Journal of Science 

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