Articles | Volume 14, issue 11
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-4233-2020
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-4233-2020
Research article
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02 Dec 2020
Research article |  | 02 Dec 2020

Mapping the age of ice of Gauligletscher combining surface radionuclide contamination and ice flow modeling

Guillaume Jouvet, Stefan Röllin, Hans Sahli, José Corcho, Lars Gnägi, Loris Compagno, Dominik Sidler, Margit Schwikowski, Andreas Bauder, and Martin Funk

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We show that plutonium is an effective tracer to identify ice originating from the early 1960s at the surface of a mountain glacier after a long time within the ice flow, giving unique information on the long-term former ice motion. Combined with ice flow modelling, the dating can be extended to the entire glacier, and we show that an airplane which crash-landed on the Gauligletscher in 1946 will likely soon be released from the ice close to the place where pieces have emerged in recent years.
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