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The Last Glaciation in Valchiavenna (Italian Alps): maximum ice elevation data and recessional glacial deposits and landforms
Chapter 5.5 Gaussberg: volcanology and petrology
Abstract Gaussberg is a nunatak composed of lamproite pillow lava situated on the coast of East Antarctica. It is the most isolated Quaternary volcanic centre in Antarctica but it is important palaeoenvironmentally and petrologically out of all proportion to its small size. The edifice has a likely low, shield-like, morphology c. 1200 m high and possibly up to 10 km wide, which is unusually large for a lamproite construct. Gaussberg was erupted subglacially at 56 ± 5 ka, which places it late in the last glacial, close to the peak of marine isotope stage 3. The coeval ice sheet was c. 1300 m thick, and c. 420 m has been removed from the ice surface since Gaussberg erupted. Lamproite is a rare ultrapotassic mantle-derived magma, and Gaussberg is one of two type examples worldwide. Although traditionally considered as related in some way to the Kerguelen plume, it is more likely that the Gaussberg magma is a product of a separate magmatic event. It is ascribed to the storage and long-term (Gy) isolation of sediment emplaced by subduction in the Transition Zone of the deep mantle, followed by entrainment and subsequent melting in a plume.
ABSTRACT The Tuya-Kawdy region of northern British Columbia is well established as a place where glaciation and volcanism overlapped in space. However, no modern work has integrated observations from the region’s volcanic and glacial deposits with geochronologic constraints to summarize how they might overlap in time. Here, we provide a general overview of such characteristics and 23 new 40 Ar/ 39 Ar eruption ages of glaciovolcanic deposits ranging from 4.3 Ma to 63 ka to constrain the timing, location, and minimum thicknesses and distributions of coincident ice. Subaerial lava fields interspersed with glaciovolcanism record periods of ice-sheet absence in presumably warmer climate conditions. These generally coincide with interglacial marine isotope stages. Many of the volcanoes have a secondary record of posteruption glacial modification, cirques, erratics, and mega-lineations, which document later climate changes up to the present. We used edifice-based terrain analysis to reconstruct changes to local minimum Cordilleran ice-sheet thicknesses, extents, and flow directions at specific locations and times during the late Pliocene and the Pleistocene.
Roads less travelled by—Pleistocene piracy in Washington’s northwestern Channeled Scabland
ABSTRACT The Pleistocene Okanogan lobe of Cordilleran ice in north-central Washington State dammed Columbia River to pond glacial Lake Columbia and divert the river south across one or another low spot along a 230-km-long drainage divide. When enormous Missoula floods from the east briefly engulfed the lake, water poured across a few such divide saddles. The grandest such spillway into the Channeled Scabland became upper Grand Coulee. By cutting headward to Columbia valley, upper Grand Coulee’s flood cataract opened a valve that then kept glacial Lake Columbia low and limited later floods into nearby Moses Coulee. Indeed few of the scores of last-glacial Missoula floods managed to reach it. Headward cutting of an inferred smaller cataract (Foster Coulee) had earlier lowered glacial Lake Columbia’s outlet. Such Scabland piracies explain a variety of field evidence assembled here: apparently successive outlets of glacial Lake Columbia, and certain megaflood features downcurrent to Wenatchee and Quincy basin. Ice-rafted erratics and the Pangborn bar of foreset gravel near Wenatchee record late Wisconsin flood(s) down Columbia valley as deep as 320 m. Fancher bar, 45 m higher than Pangborn bar, also has tall foreset beds—but its gravel is partly rotted and capped by thick calcrete, thus pre-Wisconsin age, perhaps greatly so. In western Quincy basin foreset beds of basaltic gravel dip east from Columbia valley into the basin—gravel also partly rotted and capped by thick calcrete, also pre-Wisconsin. Yet evidence of late Wisconsin eastward flow to Quincy basin is sparse. This sequence suggests that upper Grand Coulee had largely opened before down-Columbia megaflood(s) early in late Wisconsin time. A drift-obscured area of the Waterville Plateau near Badger Wells is the inconspicuous divide saddle between Columbia tributary Foster Creek drainage and Moses Coulee drainage. Before flood cataracts had opened upper Grand Coulee or Foster Coulee, and while Okanogan ice blocked the Columbia but not Foster Creek, glacial Lake Columbia (diverted Columbia River) drained over this saddle at about 654 m and down Moses Coulee. When glacial Lake Columbia stood at this high level so far west, Missoula floods swelling the lake could easily and deeply flood Moses Coulee. Once eastern Foster Coulee cataract had been cut through, and especially once upper Grand Coulee’s great cataract receded to Columbia valley, glacial Lake Columbia stood lower, and Moses Coulee became harder to flood. During the late Wisconsin (marine isotope stage [MIS] 2), only when Okanogan-lobe ice blocked the Columbia near Brewster to form a high lake could Missoula floodwater from glacial Lake Missoula rise enough to overflow into Moses Coulee—and then only in a few very largest Missoula floods. Moses Coulee’s main excavation must lie with pre-Wisconsin outburst floods (MIS 6 or much earlier)—before upper Grand Coulee’s cataract had receded to Columbia valley.
U–Pb isotopic ages and provenance of some far-travelled exotic pebbles from glaciogenic sediments of the Polonez Cove Formation (Oligocene, King George Island)
The provenance of the Norber erratics, North Yorkshire, UK
Constraints from cosmogenic nuclides on the glaciation and erosion history of Dove Bugt, northeast Greenland
Detection of tunnels and boulders using shallow SH-SH reflected seismic waves
Abstract In the early 1830s Charles Lyell was convinced that much of western Europe had been submerged during the Pleistocene by cold seas strewn with icebergs; the relicts of whose loads of rock and mud occurred on land as boulder clay and erratic blocks. Swiss scientist Louis Agassiz disagreed, considering in 1837 that these were the products of deposition by a great ice sheet. Archibald Geikie realized by 1863 that Lyell was wrong. Mountain glaciers had carved the topography of Scotland and other parts of the UK, feeding an ice sheet that left glacial erratics behind when it melted away. He hoped, in vain, to change Lyell’s mind. Archibald Geikie’s mantle passed to his brother James, who compiled evidence from around the world to demonstrate the correctness of his brother’s thesis. It was published in 1874 just before Lyell died still arguing for the correctness of his iceberg theory, which gave us the word ‘drift’ for the unconsolidated deposits mantling the UK. Even so, by then Lyell had gone some way – no doubt partly influenced by the Geikies – to accepting that in certain instances glacial action had, indeed, moved large erratic blocks – locally even uphill, as in the Jura.
Geoscience education and public outreach in Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado, U.S.A.
Abstract The behaviour of ice caps and glaciers on sub-Antarctic islands during previous periods of warming provide key empirical evidence for understanding the behaviour of marine ice sheets in the future. However, the extent of ice on sub-Antarctic islands during the last 100 kyr is poorly constrained. Here, we investigate the past glacial extents on South Georgia, where previous Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) reconstructions vary between small fjord-terminating glaciers and a large marine-based ice sheet. To help resolve this uncertainty, we apply Schmidt hammer relative-age dating to measure rock hardness and, thus, exposure age of a range of glacial deposits. Applying a hardness–age calibration curve constructed from well-dated Holocene, late-glacial deposits and terminal LGM deposits, we determine that deglaciation of the approximately 600 m-high peaks on the outer Lewin Peninsula occurred during the latter half of the last glacial stage, and probably the end of the LGM. We infer that South Georgia was covered by a marine-based ice cap during the latter part of the last glacial stage.
Local glaciation in West Greenland linked to North Atlantic Ocean circulation during the Holocene
The last glaciation in Orkney, Scotland: glacial stratigraphy, event sequence and flow paths
Abstract Early Jurassic plesiosaurian fossils are rare in the Scandinavian region, with a few isolated bones and teeth known from Bornholm, and anecdotal finds from East Greenland. The only other identifiable specimens derive from Toarcian-aged (based on ammonites) erratics deposited during Late Pleistocene glacial advances near the town of Ahrensburg, NE of Hamburg in northern Germany. The geographical source of these transported clasts is debated, but reconstructed ice-flow directions and lithofacies comparisons implicate either the offshore Baltic Sea between the Island of Bornholm and Mecklenburg–Vorpommern (Germany) or, less probably, south of the Danish Archipelago (Mecklenburg Bay). These regions collectively bordered the Fennoscandian landmass and adjacent Ringkøbing-Fyn Island in the late Early Jurassic, and were dominated by near-shore marine deltaic to basinal settings. The Ahrensburg plesiosaurian remains include postcranial elements reminiscent of both the microcleidid Seeleyosaurus and the rhomaelosaurid Meyerasaurus . These occur alongside other classic ‘Germanic province’ marine amniotes, such as the teleosaurid crocodyliform Steneosaurus and ichthyosaurian Stenopterygius cf. quadriscissus : thus, advocating faunal continuity between Scandinavia and southern Germany during the Toarcian, and a less pronounced marine reptile faunal provinciality than previously assumed.
Landform signature of the Laurentide and Cordilleran ice sheets across Alberta during the last glaciation
Abstract Glacial Lake Missoula was repeatedly dammed by the Purcell Trench Lobe of the Cordilleran ice sheet during the last glaciation to maximum altitudes near 4200 ft (1280 m). Studies from outside of the lake basin suggest that the lake filled and drained multiple times in the late Pleistocene. Deposits and landforms within the former glacial lake basin provide evidence for a complex lake-level history that is not well understood for this famous impoundment. At least two general lake phases are evident in the stratigraphy: an earlier phase of catastrophic drainage that was responsible for large-scale dramatic erosional and depositional features, and a later, less-catastrophic, phase responsible for the preservation of fine-grained glaciolacustrine sediments. Features of the earlier lake phase include giant gravel dunes and openwork gravel with anomalously large clasts (erratics). Deposits from the later phase are mostly low-energy glaciolacustrine sediments that record a history of lake-bottom sedimentation and repeated lake-floor exposure. A focus of this field trip is to look at evidence for the two lake phases as well as evaluate the record of exposure surfaces, and therefore lake-level lowerings, during the second phase at multiple locations in the lake basin. One of the second phase sites is close to a highstand, full basin position in the lake (near Garden Gulch), representing a maximum water depth at this site of ~100 m, whereas others (Rail line and Ninemile) are at lower altitudes in regions that may have been under as much as 300 m of water. Fine-grained glaciolacustrine sediments are rippled very fine sandy silt and fining-upward sequences of laminated silt and clayey silt of glaciolacustrine origin. Periglacial features, contorted bedding, desiccation, and paleosols in outcrop provide clear evidence of multiple exposure surfaces; each represent a lake-lowering event. Optically stimulated luminescence (OSL or “optical dating”) ages on quartz from the three sections (Ninemile, Rail line, and Garden Gulch) allow for preliminary correlations that suggest approximately the same phase of glacial Lake Missoula sedimentation. The exposure surfaces suggest that the glacial-lake level rose and fell at least 8–12 times to elevations above and below the sections (936–1180 m), filling to within 100 m of full pool (1280 m). Optical dating shows that this occurred after 20 ka and the last inundation of the lake before 13.5 ka. Correlation of specific exposure surfaces throughout the basin will be required to develop a lake-level history.