Timing of Late Quaternary glaciations throughout the Himalayas

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Home Wrangel Island Iceland Svalbard India Principal Investigators Funding Project Summary Publications resulting from this research Links Far Eastern Russia Little Diomede Island Ellesmere Island Kamchatka Cosmogenic Isotope Research Quaternary Research Center	Timing of Late Quaternary glaciations throughout the Himalayas The Parvatti Valley, northern India.
	Principal Investigators Dr. Lewis Owen, Department of Earth Sciences, University of California, Riverside Dr. Lyn Gualtieri, Quaternary Research Center, University of Washington lyn4@u.washington.edu Dr. Bob Finkel, Center for Accelerator Mass Spectrometry, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Dr. Marc Caffee, Center for Accelerator Mass Spectrometry, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Funding Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory The University Collaborative Research Program (University of Califormia) Project Summary I worked on this project while I was a post doctoral researcher at the University of California/Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. This project focused on ¹⁰Be and ²⁶Al dating of boulders on moraines and glacially-scoured bedrock in the Lahul Himalayas. Due to a lack of suitable material for ¹⁴C dating, age estimates on glacial advances in this region were previously based on TL and relative dating techniques. Publications resulting from this research Owen, L.A., Finkel, R.C., Caffee, M.W., and Gualtieri, L. (2002). Timing of multiple glaciations in the Late Quaternary in the Hunza valley, Karakoram Mountains, Northern Pakistan: constrained by cosmogenic radionuclide dating of moraines. Geological Society of America Bulletin 114 (5): 593-604. Owen, L. A., Gualtieri, L, Finkel, R.C., Caffee, M.W., Benn, D. I., and Sharma, M.C. 2001. Cosmogenic radionuclide dating of glacial landforms in the Lahul Himalaya, northern India: defining the timing of Late Quaternary glaciation. Journal of Quaternary Science 16: 555-563. Owen, L., Caffee, M., Finkel, B., Gualtieri, L., Richards, B. and Spencer, J. 1999. Timing of Late Quaternary glaciations throughout the Himalayas. Geological Society of America Program with Abstracts. Denver, Colorado.
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