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Articles | Volume 15, issue 1
Articles | Volume 15, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-15-17-2021
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https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-15-17-2021
© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
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Articles | Volume 15, issue 1
Research article
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04 Jan 2021
Research article |  | 04 Jan 2021

Subglacial carbonate deposits as a potential proxy for a glacier's former presence

Matej Lipar, Andrea Martín-Pérez, Jure Tičar, Miha Pavšek, Matej Gabrovec, Mauro Hrvatin, Blaž Komac, Matija Zorn, Nadja Zupan Hajna, Jian-Xin Zhao, Russell N. Drysdale, and Mateja Ferk

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The U–Th ages of subglacial carbonate deposits from a recently exposed surface previously occupied by the disappearing glacier in the SE European Alps suggest the glacier’s presence throughout the entire Holocene. These thin deposits, formed by regelation, would have been easily eroded if exposed during previous Holocene climatic optima. The age data indicate the glacier’s present unprecedented level of retreat and the potential of subglacial carbonates to act as palaeoclimate proxies.
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