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Riukojietna, a small low-altitude ice cap that may have persisted through the Holocene: evidence from combining cosmogenic multi-nuclide dating and lacustrine sediment records
Arjen P. Stroeven
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Department of Physical Geography, Stockholm University, 106 91 Stockholm, Sweden
Bolin Centre for Climate Research, Stockholm University, 106 91 Stockholm, Sweden
Gunhild C. Rosqvist
Department of Physical Geography, Stockholm University, 106 91 Stockholm, Sweden
Bolin Centre for Climate Research, Stockholm University, 106 91 Stockholm, Sweden
Alexandria J. Koester
Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA
Jane L. Andersen
Department of Physical Geography, Stockholm University, 106 91 Stockholm, Sweden
Research Centre for the Built Environment, Energy, Climate, and Water Technology, VIA University College, 8700 Horsens, Denmark
Carl-Anton Wahlström
IKNI AS, P.O. Box 6646, 0129 Oslo, Norway
Nathaniel A. Lifton
Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA
Purdue Rare Isotope Measurement Laboratory (PRIME Lab), Department of Physics and Astronomy, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA
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Short summary
Did Scandinavian glaciers survive the warmer conditions of the early Holocene? Ice thickness measurements, proglacial lake sediment, and cosmogenic nuclides in bedrock alongside Riukojietna, a small low-elevation ice cap in northern Sweden, all combine to constrain a glacier advance and retreat history since 9.8 thousand years ago. Riukojietna was small but persisted through the early Holocene, illustrating that other but higher-elevation valley glaciers in the region may also have done so.
Did Scandinavian glaciers survive the warmer conditions of the early Holocene? Ice thickness...
