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- Title
Expansion of outlet glaciers of the Juneau Icefield in northwest British Columbia during the past two millennia.
- Authors
Clague, John J.; Koch, Johannes; Geertsema, Marten
- Abstract
Radiocarbon and dendrochronological dating of glacially overridden stumps and detrital wood indicates that two outlet glaciers of the Juneau Icefield advanced shortly before the 'Little Ice Age'. Tulsequah Glacier advanced to within 2.4 km of its all-time Holocene limit between ad 865 and ad 940. Llewellyn Glacier, one of the largest glaciers in British Columbia, advanced sometime between ad 300 and ad 500, and reached to within 400 m of its Holocene limit between ad 1035 and ad 1210, well before the climactic, 'classical' 'Little Ice Age' advances of the past several centuries. Our data show that some glaciers in western North America were extensive and expanding at times when alpine glaciers have, in the past, been assumed to be restricted. The evidence raises questions about how to define the time of the beginning of the 'Little Ice Age' and, perhaps more importantly, about the utility of the term.
- Subjects
BRITISH Columbia; RADIOCARBON dating; DENDROCHRONOLOGY; GLACIERS; PLEISTOCENE stratigraphic geology; MOUNTAIN ecology; JUNEAU Icefield (Alaska &; B.C.)
- Publication
Holocene, 2010, Vol 20, Issue 3, p447
- ISSN
0959-6836
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/0959683609353433