Age ranges of the Tibetan ice cores with emphasis on the Chongce ice cores, western Kunlun Mountains

Hou, Shugui; Jenk, Theo M.; Zhang, Wangbin; Wang, Chaomin; Wu, Shuangye; Wang, Yetang; Pang, Hongxi; Schwikowski, Margit

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-12-2341-2018

Articles | Volume 12, issue 7

https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-12-2341-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-12-2341-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 12, issue 7

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16 Jul 2018

Research article |

| 16 Jul 2018

Age ranges of the Tibetan ice cores with emphasis on the Chongce ice cores, western Kunlun Mountains

Shugui Hou, Theo M. Jenk, Wangbin Zhang, Chaomin Wang, Shuangye Wu, Yetang Wang, Hongxi Pang, and Margit Schwikowski

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SC1: 'Comments on Shugui Hou et al manuscript', Lonnie Thompson, 24 Apr 2018
- AC1: 'Response to comments by Prof. Lonnie Thompson', Shugui Hou, 30 Apr 2018
RC1: 'Manuscript review: Shugui Hou et al. tc-2018-55', Anonymous Referee #1, 24 Apr 2018
- AC2: 'Response to comments by Anonymous Referee #1', Shugui Hou, 16 May 2018
- RC2: 'Review of Hou et al.', Paul Andrew Mayewski, 25 May 2018
  - AC3: 'Response to Prof. Paul Mayewski's comments', Shugui Hou, 27 May 2018

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AR by Shugui Hou on behalf of the Authors (16 Jun 2018) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (29 Jun 2018) by Joel Savarino

RR by Anonymous Referee #1 (02 Jul 2018)

ED: Publish as is (05 Jul 2018) by Joel Savarino

Short summary

We present multiple lines of evidence indicating that the Chongce ice cores drilled from the northwestern Tibetan Plateau reaches back only to the early Holocene. This result is at least, 1 order of magnitude younger than the nearby Guliya ice core (~30 km away from the Chongce ice core drilling site) but similar to other Tibetan ice cores. Thus it is necessary to explore multiple dating techniques to confirm the age ranges of the Tibetan ice cores.