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Cosmogenic nuclide constraints on late Quaternary glacial chronology on the Dalijia Shan, northeastern Tibetan Plateau

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Jie Wang ,
Christine Kassab ,
Jonathan M. Harbor ,
Marc W. Caffee ,
Hang Cui  and
Guoliang Zhang
Jie Wang*
Affiliation:
Key Laboratory of Western China's Environmental Systems (Ministry of Education), Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, Gansu 730000, China
Christine Kassab
Affiliation:
Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA
Jonathan M. Harbor
Affiliation:
Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA
Marc W. Caffee
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, Purdue Rare Isotope Measurement Laboratory, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907 1397, USA
Hang Cui
Affiliation:
Key Laboratory of Western China's Environmental Systems (Ministry of Education), Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, Gansu 730000, China
Guoliang Zhang
Affiliation:
Key Laboratory of Western China's Environmental Systems (Ministry of Education), Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, Gansu 730000, China
*
*Corresponding author. E-mail addresses:[email protected] (J. Wang),[email protected] (C. Kassab).
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Abstract

Cosmogenic nuclide (CN) apparent exposure dating has become a widely used method for determining the age of glacial landforms on the Tibetan Plateau with > 1200 published ages. We present the first 10Be exposure ages from the Dalijia Shan, the most northeastern formerly glaciated mountain range on the Tibetan Plateau. The moraine groups identified from field and remote sensing imagery mapping record four glacial events at 37.07 ± 3.70 to 52.96 ± 4.70 ka (MIS 3), 20.17 ± 1.79 to 26.99 ± 2.47 ka (MIS 2), 16.92 ± 1.49 to 18.76 ± 1.88 ka (MIS 2), and 11.56 ± 1.03 to 11.89 ± 1.06 ka (Younger Dryas). These ages indicate that glaciation in the northeastern Tibetan Plateau is much younger than previously thought. In addition, this record is consistent with many other regions on the Tibetan Plateau, with a local last glacial maximum during MIS 3 asynchronous with Northern Hemisphere last glacial maximum during MIS 2. The Dalijia Shan might also include an event of Younger Dryas age, but this needs to be tested in future studies.

Keywords

Tibetan plateauCosmogenic nuclideGlacial chronologyDalijia Shan
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Quaternary Research , Volume 79 , Issue 3 , May 2013 , pp. 439 - 451
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University of Washington

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