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Tephrochronology of Late Wisconsin Deglaciation and Holocene Glacier Fluctuations Near Glacier Peak, North Cascade Range, Washington

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

James E. Beget
James E. Beget*
Affiliation:
Geothermal Department, Chevron Resources Company, P.O. Box 7147, San Francisco, California 94120-7147
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Abstract

Tephra layers near Glacier Peak in the North Cascade Range provide limiting dates for four periods of alpine glacier advance. Field relations suggest that late Wisconsin alpine glaciers last advanced prior to the eruption of tephra layers from Glacier Peak about 11,250 yr B.P. Late Wisconsin deglaciation in the central North Cascades was complete prior to the Glacier Peak tephra eruptions. Glaciers again expanded in the early Holocene about 8400 – 8300 yr B.P. Soil formed in alpine meadows during an episode of mild climate in the middle Holocene prior to at least two intervals of glacier expansion: an older episode between 5100 and 3400 yr B.P., and a younger episode within the last 1000 yr.

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Quaternary Research , Volume 21 , Issue 3 , May 1984 , pp. 304 - 316
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University of Washington

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