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Resolving the paradox of conflicting glacial chronologies: Reconstructing the pattern of deglaciation of the Magellan cordilleran ice dome (53¨C54¡ãS) during the last glacial ¨C interglacial transition

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Mcculloch RD, Bentley MJ, Fabel D, Fern¨¢ndez-Navarro H, Garcia JL, Hein AS, Huynh C, Jamieson SSR, Lira M, L¨¹thgens C, Nield GA, San Rom¨¢n M & Tisdall EW (2024) Resolving the paradox of conflicting glacial chronologies: Reconstructing the pattern of deglaciation of the Magellan cordilleran ice dome (53¨C54¡ãS) during the last glacial ¨C interglacial transition. Quaternary Science Reviews, 344, Art. No.: 108866. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2024.108866

Abstract
Raised shorelines and associated lacustrine sediments in the central Estrecho de Magallanes (Strait of Magellan) have been interpreted as products of cordilleran glaciers impounding a large proglacial lake and preventing drainage to the South Pacific and Southern Ocean during the Late glacial between c. 15.0 and 12.0 cal ka BP. However, a growing body of glacial geological evidence points towards an earlier retreat of the Magellan cordilleran ice dome, insufficient to dam lakes at that time. We critically re-evaluate the extant evidence for the c. 15.0-12.0 cal ka BP lake, here named 'Lago Kaw¨¦sqar', and provide further sedimentological and chronological evidence for its existence. We also provide new cosmogenic surface nuclide dating of erratic and bedrock samples collected

Keywords
Fuego-patagonia; Cosmogenic dating; OSL dating; Tephrochronology; Lake sediments; Glacial isostatic adjustment; Neotectonics

Journal
Quaternary Science Reviews: Volume 344

StatusPublished
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Publication date15/11/2024
Publication date online06/09/2024
Date accepted by journal28/07/2024
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PublisherElsevier BV
ISSN0277-3791

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Dr Eileen Tisdall

Dr Eileen Tisdall

Senior Lecturer, Biological and Environmental Sciences