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Age ranges of the Tibetan ice cores with emphasis on the Chongce ice cores, western Kunlun Mountains
School of Geographic and Oceanographic Sciences, Nanjing University,
Nanjing, 210023, China
CAS Center for Excellence in Tibetan Plateau Earth Sciences, Beijing,
100101, China
Theo M. Jenk
Laboratory of Environmental Chemistry, Paul Scherrer Institute,
5232 Villigen PSI, Switzerland
Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research, University of Bern,
Sidlerstrasse 5, 3012 Bern, Switzerland
Wangbin Zhang
School of Geographic and Oceanographic Sciences, Nanjing University,
Nanjing, 210023, China
Chaomin Wang
School of Geographic and Oceanographic Sciences, Nanjing University,
Nanjing, 210023, China
Shuangye Wu
Department of Geology, University of Dayton, Dayton, OH 45469, USA
Yetang Wang
College of Geography and Environment, Shandong Normal University,
Jinan, 250358, China
Hongxi Pang
School of Geographic and Oceanographic Sciences, Nanjing University,
Nanjing, 210023, China
Margit Schwikowski
Laboratory of Environmental Chemistry, Paul Scherrer Institute,
5232 Villigen PSI, Switzerland
Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research, University of Bern,
Sidlerstrasse 5, 3012 Bern, Switzerland
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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.
We present multiple lines of evidence indicating that the Chongce ice cores drilled from the...
