Browsing by Author "Cabre, A."

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    Assessment of physical weathering in bedrock areas at the Trinity Peninsula, Antarctica: Towards a classification of the current weathering grade in polar areas
    (2022) Ruiz-Pereira, S.; Beriain, E.; Cabre, A.; Cid-Aguero, P.
    The Antarctic Peninsula is one of the world's most rapidly warming regions; over the last hundred years, glaciers have retreated, exposing new rocky areas to physical weathering. In its northernmost part, the Trinity Peninsula, physical weathering processes on exposed bedrock between west and east coasts may not be at the same weathering stage as surface temperature conditions are assumed historically different.
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    Chronology of Glacial Advances and Deglaciation in the Encierro River Valley (29° Lat. S), Southern Atacama Desert, Based on Geomorphological Mapping and Cosmogenic 10Be Exposure Ages
    (2022) Aguilar, G.; Riquelme, R.; Lohse, P.; Cabre, A.; Garcia, J. -L.
    The high mountain segments of the valleys of the southernmost Atacama Desert of Chile present Late Quaternary glacial landforms that developed in already incised valleys. Glacier advances and deglaciation have left a geomorphic imprint in the southernmost Atacama Desert. In this work, the glacial landforms of the Encierro River Valley (29.1 degrees S-69.9 degrees W) have been revisited and new detailed geomorphological mapping is provided. This work also includes new Be-10 exposure ages from moraine boulders and one age from an ice-molded bedrock surface. The former glacier of the El Encierro valley extended 16 km down the valley during the last local glacial maximum recorded by a terminal moraine (ENC 1a) with an exposure age of similar to 40 ka. Four inboard moraine arcs were deposited upstream in telescopic patterns (ENC 1b-d), whose exposure ages range between similar to 25 and similar to 33 ka (ENC 1d). Exposure ages between similar to 17-24 ka on lateral moraines (ENC 1L) developed during the later ice recession of the ENC 1 drift. Thus, the ice mostly disappeared in the main valley before similar to 18 ka, as is also supported by the exposure age obtained from an ice-molded bedrock surface. Seven kilometers up the valley from the ENC 1, the ENC 2a-d moraine arcs correspond to a small ice advance by similar to 17-20 ka. The last glacial advance (ENC 2), which occurred after deglaciation of the last local glacial maximum (ENC 1), coincides with the start of the Heinrich Stadial Event 1 (HS1; 18-14.5 ka), which is thought to play a direct role in the last glacial termination in the Andes.