TY  - JOUR
A1  - Margold, Martin
A1  - Jansen, John D.
A1  - Gurinov, Artem L.
A1  - Codilean, Alexandru T.
A1  - Fink, David
A1  - Preusser, Frank
A1  - Reznichenko, Natalya V.
A1  - Mifsud, Charles
T1  - Extensive glaciation in Transbaikalia, Siberia, at the Last Glacial Maximum
JF  - Quaternary science reviews : the international multidisciplinary research and review journal
N2  - Successively smaller glacial extents have been proposed for continental Eurasia during the stadials of the last glacial period leading up to the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM). At the same time the large mountainous region east of Lake Baikal, Transbaikalia, has remained unexplored in terms of glacial chronology despite clear geomorphological evidence of substantial past glaciations. We have applied cosmogenic Be-10 exposure dating and optically stimulated luminescence to establish the first quantitative glacial chronology for this region. Based on eighteen exposure ages from five moraine complexes, we propose that large mountain ice fields existed in the Kodar and Udokan mountains during Oxygen Isotope Stage 2, commensurate with the global LGM. These ice fields fed valley glaciers (>100 km in length) reaching down to the Chara Depression between the Kodar and Udokan mountains and to the valley of the Vitim River northwest of the Kodar Mountains. Two of the investigated moraines date to the Late Glacial, but indications of incomplete exposure among some of the sampled boulders obscure the specific details of the post-LGM glacial history. In addition to the LGM ice fields in the highest mountains of Transbaikalia, we report geomorphological evidence of a much more extensive, ice-cap type glaciation at a time that is yet to be firmly resolved. (C) 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
KW  - Glaciation
KW  - Transbaikalia
KW  - Last Glacial Maximum
KW  - Cosmogenic Be-10 exposure dating
KW  - Optically stimulated luminescence
Y1  - 2016
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2015.11.018
SN  - 0277-3791
VL  - 132
SP  - 161
EP  - 174
PB  - Elsevier
CY  - Oxford
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Eugster, Patricia
A1  - Scherler, Dirk
A1  - Thiede, Rasmus Christoph
A1  - Codilean, Alexandru T.
A1  - Strecker, Manfred
T1  - Rapid Last Glacial Maximum deglaciation in the Indian Himalaya coeval with midlatitude glaciers: New insights from Be-10-dating of ice-polished bedrock surfaces in the Chandra Valley, NW Himalaya
JF  - Geophysical research letters
N2  - Despite a large number of dated glacial landforms in the Himalaya, the ice extent during the global Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) from 19 to 23 ka is only known to first order. New cosmogenic Be-10 exposure ages from well-preserved glacially polished surfaces, combined with published data, and an improved production rate scaling model allow reconstruction of the LGM ice extent and subsequent deglaciation in the Chandra Valley of NW India. We show that a >1000 m thick valley glacier retreated >150 km within a few thousand years after the onset of LGM deglaciation. By comparing the recession of the Chandra Valley Glacier and other Himalayan glaciers with those of Northern and Southern Hemisphere glaciers, we demonstrate that post-LGM deglaciation was similar and nearly finished prior to the Bolling/Allerod interstadial. Our study supports the view that many Himalayan glaciers advanced during the LGM, likely in response to global variations in temperature.
Y1  - 2016
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1002/2015GL066077
SN  - 0094-8276
SN  - 1944-8007
VL  - 43
SP  - 1589
EP  - 1597
PB  - American Geophysical Union
CY  - Washington
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Munack, Henry
A1  - Blöthe, Jan Henrik
A1  - Fülöp, R. H.
A1  - Codilean, Alexandru T.
A1  - Fink, D.
A1  - Korup, Oliver
T1  - Recycling of Pleistocene valley fills dominates 135 ka of sediment flux, upper Indus River
JF  - Quaternary science reviews : the international multidisciplinary research and review journal
KW  - Transhimalaya
KW  - Zanskar
KW  - Indus
KW  - Valley fill
KW  - Drainage capture
KW  - In-situ cosmogenic Be-10
Y1  - 2016
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2016.07.030
SN  - 0277-3791
VL  - 149
SP  - 122
EP  - 134
PB  - Elsevier
CY  - Oxford
ER  -