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Rapid early Holocene deglaciation of the Laurentide ice sheet [PDF]

Nature Geoscience, 2008
The demise of the Laurentide ice sheet during the early Holocene epoch is the most recent and best constrained disappearance of a large ice sheet in the Northern Hemisphere, and thus allows an assessment of rates of ice-sheet decay as well as attendant contributions to sea level rise.
Carlson, Anders E., LeGrande, Allegra N., Oppo, Delia W., Came, Rosemarie E., Schmidt, Gavin A., Anslow, Faron S., Licciardi, Joseph M., Obbink, Elizabeth A.   +7 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Cryostratigraphy of Rhythmic Segregated Ice in Colluvium and Implications for Permafrost Slope Stability

Permafrost and Periglacial Processes, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The amount and stratigraphic setting of ground ice in permafrost slopes is a key control on the style and magnitude of permafrost mass wasting. Understanding the spatial and stratigraphic variations in ground ice distribution on permafrost slopes is therefore a fundamental property in assessing the stability of permafrost hillslopes.
Joseph M. Young, Alejandro Alvarez, Duane Froese   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Theory of Orbital-Forced Glacial Cycles: Resolving Pleistocene Puzzles

Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 2023
It is recognized that orbital forcing of the ice sheet is through the summer air temperature, which however covaries with the sea surface temperature and both precede the ice volume signal, suggesting the ocean as an intermediary of the glacial cycles ...
Hsien-Wang Ou
doaj   +1 more source

Cenozoic Tectonics Ignite Mitochondrial Codon Innovations Propelling Canid Body Size Evolution and Transcontinental Radiations

Integrative Zoology, EarlyView.
We decode mitochondrial genomes across all extant canids, revealing lineage‐specific codon optimization driven by altitude, predation, and body size. A tripartite framework integrates geological events, metabolic constraints, and adaptive radiation to explain carnivore evolution.
Xiaoyang Wu, Xibao Wang, Yongquan Shang, Yao Chen, Haotian Cai, Tian Xia, Qinguo Wei, Weilai Sha, Honghai Zhang   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Introduction : The Laurentide Ice Sheet and its Significance [PDF]

, 1987
The Laurentide Ice Sheet is a glacier complex that covered large parts of eastern, central and northern North America during the last glaciation.
Fulton, Robert J., Prest, Victor K.
core  

Assessing the Vulnerability of an Inuit Archaeological Site in a Changing Periglacial Environment: A Novel Multimethod Geophysical Approach in Arctic Geoarchaeology

Archaeometry, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT With northern regions warming at twice the global rate, assessing the state of archaeological sites in these areas is critically important. In this study, we used a multimethod geophysical approach (ERT, GPR, and EMI) to characterize the current geocryological conditions of an Inuit archaeological site on South Aulatsivik Island (Labrador ...
Rachel Labrie, Dominique Todisco, Najat Bhiry, Cécile Finco, Héloïg Barbel Le Page, Armelle Couillet   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Early Wisconsinan History of the Laurentide Ice Sheet [PDF]

Géographie physique et Quaternaire, 2008
The identification, particularly at the periphery of the ice sheet, of glacigenic sediments thought to postdate nonglacial sediments or paleosols regarded as having been laid down sometime during the Sangamonian Interglaciation (stage 5) and thought to predate nonglacial sediments or soils reckoned to be of Middle Wisconsinan age (stage 3), has led ...
Vincent, Jean-Serge, Prest, Victor K.
openaire   +1 more source

Late‐Holocene evolution of a small Sub‐Arctic glacier, Gljúfurárjökull (Tröllaskagi, northern Iceland)

Boreas, EarlyView.
Gljúfurárjökull, located on the Tröllaskagi Peninsula in northern Iceland, is a small glacier approximately 3.8 km in length. This study analyses the glacier's evolution through a combination of methods including: (i) geomorphological mapping, (ii) Cosmic‐Ray Exposure (CRE) dating, (iii) lichenometry and (iv) palaeoglacier reconstruction (volume ...
Nuria Andrés, José M. Fernández‐Fernández, David Palacios, Irene Schimmelpfennig, Leopoldo G. Sancho, Skafti Brynjólfsson, Þorsteinn Sæmundsson, Wesley R. Farnsworth, Luis M. Tanarro, Mariano Brito, Javier Santos‐González, Rosa B. González‐Gutiérrez, ASTER Team, Georges Aumaître, Karim Keddadouche   +14 more
wiley   +1 more source

Rain driven by receding ice sheets as a cause of past climate change [PDF]

, 2009
The Younger Dryas cold period, which interrupted the transition from the last ice age to modern conditions in Greenland, is one of the most dramatic incidents of abrupt climate change reconstructed from paleoclimate proxy records. Changes in the Atlantic
Bitz, Cecilia M., Eisenman, Ian, Tziperman, Eli   +2 more
core   +1 more source

Morphology and distribution of lakes under the Laurentide Ice Sheet: implications for ice flow dynamics

Boreas, EarlyView.
This study examines the distribution and morphology of lakes under the Laurentide Ice Sheet (LIS) to investigate relationships with ice flow velocity, bedrock and basal thermal regime. Palaeo‐ice streams and lobes were important components of the LIS, and properties of lakes in those regions are quantified at high resolution.
Sarah M. Principato, Carissa M. Mobley
wiley   +1 more source