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Modeling the timing of Patagonian Ice Sheet retreat in the Chilean Lake District from 22–10 ka
Joshua Cuzzone
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Joint Institute for Regional Earth System Science and Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
Matias Romero
Department of Geoscience, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA
Shaun A. Marcott
Department of Geoscience, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA
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Short summary
We simulate the retreat history of the Patagonian Ice Sheet (PIS) across the Chilean Lake District from 22–10 ka. These results improve our understanding of the response of the PIS to deglacial warming and the patterns of deglacial ice margin retreat where gaps in the geologic record still exist, and they indicate that changes in large-scale precipitation during the last deglaciation played an important role in modulating the response of ice margin change across the PIS to deglacial warming.
We simulate the retreat history of the Patagonian Ice Sheet (PIS) across the Chilean Lake...
