Articles | Volume 15, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-15-17-2021
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-15-17-2021
Research article
 | 
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

Viewed

Total article views: 3,021 (including HTML, PDF, and XML)
HTML PDF XML Total Supplement BibTeX EndNote
2,130 784 107 3,021 417 90 95
  • HTML: 2,130
  • PDF: 784
  • XML: 107
  • Total: 3,021
  • Supplement: 417
  • BibTeX: 90
  • EndNote: 95
Views and downloads (calculated since 30 Apr 2020)
Cumulative views and downloads (calculated since 30 Apr 2020)

Viewed (geographical distribution)

Total article views: 3,021 (including HTML, PDF, and XML) Thereof 2,854 with geography defined and 167 with unknown origin.
Country # Views %
  • 1
1
 
 
 
 

Cited

Latest update: 16 Jul 2024
Download
Short summary
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.