Document Type
Conference Proceeding
Publication Title
Annals of Glaciology
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Publication Date
2002
First Page
150
Last Page
156
Volume Number
35
Abstract/ Summary
The isotopic and chemical signatures for ice-age and Holocene ice from Summit, Greenland and Penny Ice Cap, Baffin Island, Canada, arc compared. The usual pattern of low delta(18)O, high Ca2+ and high Cl- is presented in the Summit records, but Penny Ice Cap has lower than present Cl- in its ice-age ice. A simple extension of the Hansson model (Hansson, 1994) is developed and used to simulate these signatures. The low ice-age Cl- from Penny Ice Cap is explained by having the ice-age ice originating many thousands of km inland near the centre of the Laurentide ice sheet and much further from the marine sources. Summit's flowlines all start close to the present site. The Penny Ice Cap early-Holocene delta(18)O's had to be corrected to offset the Laurentide meltwater distortion. The analysis suggests that presently the Summit and Penny Ice Cap marine impurity originates about,500 km away, and that presently Penny Ice Cap receives a significant amount of local continental impurity.
Repository Citation
Fisher, David A.; Koerner, Roy M.; Zielinski, Gregory A.; Wake, Cameron P.; Zdanowicz, Christian M.; Bourgeois, Jocelyne C.; Mayewski, Paul Andrew; and Grummet, Nancy, "The Effects of Flowline Length Evolution on Chemistry-Delta O-18 Profiles from Penny Ice Cap, Baffin Island, Canada" (2002). Earth Science Faculty Scholarship. 145.
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Citation/Publisher Attribution
Fisher, DA, Koerner, RM, Zielinski, GA, Wake, CP, Zdanowicz, CM, Bourgeois, JC, Mayewski, PA, et al., 2002, The Effects of Flowline Length Evolution on Chemistry-Delta O-18 Profiles from Penny Ice Cap, Baffin Island, Canada: Annals of Glaciology, Vol 35, v. 35, p. 150-156. Available on publisher's site at: http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/igsoc/agl/2002/00000035/00000001/art00027
Publisher Statement
© Copyright 2002 by the International Glaciological Society
DOI
10.3189/172756402781817257
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