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Research article
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17 Nov 2016
Research article |
| 17 Nov 2016
Age of the Mt. Ortles ice cores, the Tyrolean Iceman and glaciation of the highest summit of South Tyrol since the Northern Hemisphere Climatic Optimum
Paolo Gabrielli
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center, The Ohio State University, Columbus, 43210, USA
School of Earth Sciences, The Ohio State University, 275 Mendenhall Laboratory, Columbus, 43210, USA
Carlo Barbante
Department of Environmental Sciences, Informatics and Statistics, Ca' Foscari University of Venice, 30170 Venice-Mestre, Italy
Istituto per la Dinamica dei Processi Ambientali-CNR, 30170 Venice-Mestre, Italy
Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, 00196 Rome, Italy
Giuliano Bertagna
Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center, The Ohio State University, Columbus, 43210, USA
Michele Bertó
Department of Environmental Sciences, Informatics and Statistics, Ca' Foscari University of Venice, 30170 Venice-Mestre, Italy
Daniel Binder
Climate Research Section, Central Institute for Meteorology and Geodynamics ZAMG, 1190 Vienna, Austria
Alberto Carton
Department of Geosciences, University of Padova, 35131 Padova, Italy
Luca Carturan
Department of Land, Environment, Agriculture and Forestry, University of Padova, Agripolis, 35020 Legnaro, Italy
Federico Cazorzi
Dipartimento di Scienze Agro-Alimentari, Ambientali e Animali, Università di Udine, 33100 Udine, Italy
Giulio Cozzi
Department of Environmental Sciences, Informatics and Statistics, Ca' Foscari University of Venice, 30170 Venice-Mestre, Italy
Istituto per la Dinamica dei Processi Ambientali-CNR, 30170 Venice-Mestre, Italy
Giancarlo Dalla Fontana
Department of Land, Environment, Agriculture and Forestry, University of Padova, Agripolis, 35020 Legnaro, Italy
Mary Davis
Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center, The Ohio State University, Columbus, 43210, USA
Fabrizio De Blasi
Department of Land, Environment, Agriculture and Forestry, University of Padova, Agripolis, 35020 Legnaro, Italy
Roberto Dinale
Ufficio Idrografico, Provincia Autonoma di Bolzano, 39100 Bolzano, Italy
Gianfranco Dragà
Geologin, 39040 Varna, Italy
Giuliano Dreossi
Department of Environmental Sciences, Informatics and Statistics, Ca' Foscari University of Venice, 30170 Venice-Mestre, Italy
Daniela Festi
Institute for Botany, University of Innsbruck, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
Massimo Frezzotti
ENEA, 00196 Rome, Italy
Jacopo Gabrieli
Department of Environmental Sciences, Informatics and Statistics, Ca' Foscari University of Venice, 30170 Venice-Mestre, Italy
Istituto per la Dinamica dei Processi Ambientali-CNR, 30170 Venice-Mestre, Italy
Stephan P. Galos
Institute of Atmospheric and Cryospheric Sciences, University of Innsbruck, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
Patrick Ginot
Laboratoire de Glaciologie et Géophysique de l'Environnement (LGGE), CNRS, 38041 Grenoble, France
University Grenoble Alpes, 38041 Grenoble, France
Petra Heidenwolf
Institute for Botany, University of Innsbruck, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
Theo M. Jenk
Laboratory of Environmental Chemistry, Paul Scherrer Institut, 5232 Villigen, Switzerland
Natalie Kehrwald
Geosciences and Environmental Change Science Center, U.S. Geological Survey, Denver, 80225, USA
Donald Kenny
Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center, The Ohio State University, Columbus, 43210, USA
Olivier Magand
Laboratoire de Glaciologie et Géophysique de l'Environnement (LGGE), CNRS, 38041 Grenoble, France
University Grenoble Alpes, 38041 Grenoble, France
Volkmar Mair
Ufficio Geologia e Prove materiali, Provincia Autonoma di Bolzano, 39053 Kardano, Italy
Vladimir Mikhalenko
Institute of Geography, Russian Academy of Sciences, 119017 Moscow, Russia
Ping Nan Lin
Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center, The Ohio State University, Columbus, 43210, USA
Klaus Oeggl
Institute for Botany, University of Innsbruck, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
Gianni Piffer
Waterstones Geomonitoring, 39044 Egna, Italy
Mirko Rinaldi
Waterstones Geomonitoring, 39044 Egna, Italy
Ulrich Schotterer
University of Bern, 3012 Bern, Switzerland
Margit Schwikowski
Laboratory of Environmental Chemistry, Paul Scherrer Institut, 5232 Villigen, Switzerland
Roberto Seppi
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Pavia, 27100 Pavia, Italy
Andrea Spolaor
Department of Environmental Sciences, Informatics and Statistics, Ca' Foscari University of Venice, 30170 Venice-Mestre, Italy
Barbara Stenni
Department of Environmental Sciences, Informatics and Statistics, Ca' Foscari University of Venice, 30170 Venice-Mestre, Italy
David Tonidandel
Ufficio Geologia e Prove materiali, Provincia Autonoma di Bolzano, 39053 Kardano, Italy
Chiara Uglietti
Laboratory of Environmental Chemistry, Paul Scherrer Institut, 5232 Villigen, Switzerland
Victor Zagorodnov
Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center, The Ohio State University, Columbus, 43210, USA
Thomas Zanoner
Department of Geosciences, University of Padova, 35131 Padova, Italy
Piero Zennaro
Department of Environmental Sciences, Informatics and Statistics, Ca' Foscari University of Venice, 30170 Venice-Mestre, Italy
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Short summary
New ice cores were extracted from Alto dell'Ortles, the highest glacier of South Tyrol in the Italian Alps, to check whether prehistoric ice, which is coeval to the famous 5300-yr-old Tyrolean Iceman, is still preserved in this region. Dating of the ice cores confirms the hypothesis and indicates the drilling site has been glaciated since the end of the Northern Hemisphere Climatic Optimum (7000 yrs BP). We also infer that an unprecedented acceleration of the glacier flow has recently begun.
New ice cores were extracted from Alto dell'Ortles, the highest glacier of South Tyrol in the...
