Articles | Volume 15, issue 4
https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-15-1537-2019
https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-15-1537-2019
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08 Aug 2019
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Spatial pattern of accumulation at Taylor Dome during Marine Isotope Stage 4: stratigraphic constraints from Taylor Glacier

James A. Menking, Edward J. Brook, Sarah A. Shackleton, Jeffrey P. Severinghaus, Michael N. Dyonisius, Vasilii Petrenko, Joseph R. McConnell, Rachael H. Rhodes, Thomas K. Bauska, Daniel Baggenstos, Shaun Marcott, and Stephen Barker

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ED: Reconsider after major revisions (30 Nov 2018) by Denis-Didier Rousseau
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ED: Publish subject to technical corrections (01 Jul 2019) by Denis-Didier Rousseau
AR by James Menking on behalf of the Authors (08 Jul 2019)  Manuscript 
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An ice core from Taylor Glacier, Antarctica, spans a period ~ 70 000 years ago when Earth entered the last ice age. Chemical analyses of the ice and air bubbles allow for an independent determination of the ages of the ice and gas bubbles. The difference between the age of the ice and the bubbles at any given depth, called ∆age, is unusually high in the Taylor Glacier core compared to the Taylor Dome ice core situated to the south. This implies a dramatic accumulation gradient between the sites.