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New chronological constraints on the timing of Late Pleistocene glacier advances in northern Switzerland
Dorian Gaar
Institute of Geological Sciences and Oeschger Centre for Climate
Change Research, University of Bern, Baltzerstrasse 1+3, 3012 Bern,
Switzerland
present address: Baugeologie und Geo-Bau-Labor AG,
Bolettastrasse 1, 7000 Chur, Switzerland
Hans Rudolf Graf
Dr. von Moos AG, Dorfstrasse 40, 8214 Gächlingen, Switzerland
Frank Preusser
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Institute of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of
Freiburg, Albertstraße 23b, 79104 Freiburg, Germany
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Short summary
Deposits related to the last advance of Reuss Glacier are dated using a luminescence methodology. An age of 25 ka for sediment directly overlying the lodgement till corresponds with existing age constraints for the last maximal position of glaciers. Luminescence dating further implies an earlier advance of Reuss Glacier into the lowlands during Marine Isotope Stage 4. The data are discussed regarding potential changes in the source of precipitation during the Late Pleistocene.
Deposits related to the last advance of Reuss Glacier are dated using a luminescence...
