A 10Be chronology of the Esmark Moraine and Lysefjorden region, southwestern Norway: Evidence for coeval glacier resurgence in both polar hemispheres during the Antarctic Cold Reversal

Abstract

From 10Be surface-exposure dating we make the case that classic late-glacial moraines in southwestern Norway, including the iconic Esmark moraine, and in the Southern Hemisphere middle latitudes, including the iconic Birch Hill moraine of the Southern Alps of New Zealand, were constructed coevally within dating uncertainties. This finding of simultaneous glacier resurgence in the two polar hemispheres carries the implication that the millennial-scale climate reversal of the last deglaciation was global and required a change in the energy budget of the earth's climate system.