Cosmogenic Be-10-ages from the Store Koldewey island, NE Greenland

• Earlier work in northeast Greenland has suggested a limited advance of the Greenland Ice Sheet during the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM). However, this concept has recently been challenged by marine geological studies, indicating grounded ice on the continental shelf at this time. New Be-10-ages from the Store Koldewey island, northeast Greenland, suggest that unscoured mountain plateaus at the outer coast were covered at least partly by cold-based ice during the LGM. It is, however, still inconclusive whether this ice was dynamically connected to the Greenland Ice Sheet or not. Regardless of the LGM ice sheet extent, the Be-10 results from Store Koldewey add to a growing body of evidence suggesting considerable antiquity of crystalline unscoured terrain near present and Pleistocene ice sheet margins.

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NATURVETENSKAP  -- Geovetenskap och miljövetenskap -- Geologi (hsv//swe)

NATURAL SCIENCES  -- Earth and Related Environmental Sciences -- Geology (hsv//eng)

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NORTHERN EAST GREENLAND

SOUTHERN

ICE-SHEET

greenland

SCOTLAND

MOUNTAINS

EROSION

LANDSCAPE

EXPOSURE AGES

LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM

ARCTIC CANADA

NORWAY

cosmogenic exposure dating

blockfields

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