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© 2022 The Authors Journal of Quaternary Science Published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd.Mid-latitude Patagonian glaciers are sensitive to changes in the complex coupled ocean–atmospheric climate system of the Southern Hemisphere. Here, we investigate glacier response to a period of rapid climate warming immediately post-dating the Antarctic Cold Reversal (ACR). We analyse a sequence of 13 ice margins, four of them dated, from an outlet valley of the Monte San Lorenzo ice cap (47.3°S). We constrain glacier recession of 31.7 km over a period of ~1 kyr from 13.2 ± 0.4 to 12.1 ± 0.4 ka. The average rate of recession was 35.2 m a−1 over this 1-kyr period, increasing from 12.75 m a−1 at the start of the record (moraines M1 to M4) to 50 m a−1 from M9 to M12. This recession occurred during a period of rapid warming when the austral westerlies shifted polewards. It is likely that ice extent stabilized during the Holocene, with ice occupying the M13 moraine during repeated Holocene neoglacials, before anthropogenic warming caused recession at a rate of 55.5 m a−1 from 1985 to 2016. We conclude that 20th century rates of recession were higher than those during post-ACR warming, though of a similar order of magnitude.
Author(s): Martin JRV, Thorndycraft VR, Davies BJ, Rodes A
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Journal of Quaternary Science
Year: 2023
Volume: 38
Issue: 2
Pages: 160-173
Print publication date: 06/02/2023
Online publication date: 03/08/2022
Acceptance date: 12/07/2022
Date deposited: 23/08/2022
ISSN (print): 0267-8179
ISSN (electronic): 1099-1417
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
URL: https://doi.org/10.1002/jqs.3463
DOI: 10.1002/jqs.3463
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