Tandem dating methods constrain late Holocene glacier advances, southern Coast Mountains, British Columbia

2021 ◽  
Vol 274 ◽  
pp. 107282
Author(s):  
Adam C. Hawkins ◽  
Brian Menounos ◽  
Brent M. Goehring ◽  
Gerald D. Osborn ◽  
John J. Clague ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
British Columbia ◽  
Late Holocene ◽  
Southern Coast ◽  
Coast Mountains ◽  
Dating Methods

Did rock avalanche deposits modulate the late Holocene advance of Tiedemann Glacier, southern Coast Mountains, British Columbia, Canada?

2013 ◽  
Vol 384 ◽  
pp. 154-164 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian Menounos ◽  
John J. Clague ◽  
Garry K.C. Clarke ◽  
Shaun A. Marcott ◽  
Gerald Osborn ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
British Columbia ◽  
Late Holocene ◽  
Rock Avalanche ◽  
Southern Coast ◽  
Coast Mountains

Late Holocene vegetation and climate change at Moraine Bog, Tiedemann Glacier, southern Coast Mountains, British Columbia

2007 ◽  
Vol 44 (5) ◽  
pp. 707-719 ◽  
Author(s):  
T A Arsenault ◽  
John J Clague ◽  
R W Mathewes
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
British Columbia ◽  
Late Holocene ◽  
Water Levels ◽  
Ice Age ◽  
Silty Clay ◽  
Lateral Moraine ◽  
Southern Coast ◽  
Coast Mountains ◽  
Vegetation And Climate

Moraine Bog lies just outside the outermost lateral moraine of Tiedemann Glacier in the southern Coast Mountains of British Columbia. A sediment core taken from the wetland was analyzed for pollen, magnetic susceptibility, and loss on ignition to reconstruct changes in vegetation and climate during the late Holocene. Vegetation changed little between about 3500 and 2400 14C years BP. A period of local disturbance marked by deposition of a silty clay bed and increases in Alnus pollen, likely reflecting cooler moister conditions, coincides with an extensive Holocene advance of Tiedemann Glacier about 2400 14C years BP. Warm dry conditions between about 1900 and 1500 14C years BP are suggested by peak values of Pseudotsuga pollen and increasing Nuphar sclereids; the latter suggests lowered water levels. This period coincides with a time of drought and increased fire frequency in the southernmost Coast Mountains. About 1300 14C years BP, the forest became more coastal in composition with abundant Tsuga heterophylla and Abies. An increase in Tsuga mertensiana pollen suggests the onset of cool and wet conditions by ca. 500 14C years BP, coincident with the Little Ice Age. The record of inferred climate change at Moraine Bog is broadly synchronous with other paleoclimate records from the Coast Mountains and, at the centennial scale, with records elsewhere in the world.

Stratigraphic evidence for multiple Holocene advances of Lillooet Glacier, southern Coast Mountains, British Columbia

2004 ◽  
Vol 41 (8) ◽  
pp. 903-918 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alberto V Reyes ◽  
John J Clague
Keyword(s):  
British Columbia ◽  
Little Ice Age ◽  
Late Holocene ◽  
Woody Debris ◽  
Ice Age ◽  
Lateral Moraine ◽  
Southern Coast ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Coast Mountains ◽  
Paleoecological Reconstructions

Holocene lateral moraines in the Coast Mountains of British Columbia are commonly composed of multiple drift units related to several glacier advances. In this paper, we document lateral moraine stratigraphy at Lillooet Glacier in the southern Coast Mountains. Five tills, separated by laterally extensive paleosols and layers of large woody debris, were found in three cross-sectional exposures through the northeast lateral moraine and two shallow gullies incised into its steep proximal face. Eighteen new radiocarbon ages constrain the timing of five separate advances of Lillooet Glacier: (1) prior to 3000 14C years BP; (2) ~3000 14C years BP; (3) ~2500 14C years BP; (4) ~1700 to 1400 14C years BP; and (5) during the Little Ice Age (LIA), after 470 14C years BP. The Lillooet Glacier chronology is broadly synchronous with other glacier records from the Coast Mountains. These records collectively demonstrate climate variability at higher frequencies during the late Holocene than is apparent from many paleoecological reconstructions. Reconstructions of glacier fluctuations are often hampered by poor preservation of landforms that predate the extensive LIA advances of the latest Holocene. Our results highlight the potential of lateral moraine stratigraphy for reconstructing these earlier events.

Glacier fluctuations during the past millennium in Garibaldi Provincial Park, southern Coast Mountains, British Columbia

2007 ◽  
Vol 44 (9) ◽  
pp. 1215-1233 ◽  
Author(s):  
Johannes Koch ◽  
John J Clague ◽  
Gerald D Osborn
Keyword(s):  
British Columbia ◽  
Little Ice Age ◽  
Ice Age ◽  
Southern Coast ◽  
Coast Mountains ◽  
The Past ◽  
Glacier Fluctuations ◽  
Garibaldi Provincial Park ◽  
Provincial Park ◽  
Past Millennium

The Little Ice Age glacier history in Garibaldi Provincial Park (southern Coast Mountains, British Columbia) was reconstructed using geomorphic mapping, radiocarbon ages on fossil wood in glacier forefields, dendrochronology, and lichenometry. The Little Ice Age began in the 11th century. Glaciers reached their first maximum of the past millennium in the 12th century. They were only slightly more extensive than today in the 13th century, but advanced at least twice in the 14th and 15th centuries to near their maximum Little Ice Age positions. Glaciers probably fluctuated around these advanced positions from the 15th century to the beginning of the 18th century. They achieved their greatest extent between A.D. 1690 and 1720. Moraines were deposited at positions beyond present-day ice limits throughout the 19th and early 20th centuries. Glacier fluctuations appear to be synchronous throughout Garibaldi Park. This chronology agrees well with similar records from other mountain ranges and with reconstructed Northern Hemisphere temperature series, indicating global forcing of glacier fluctuations in the past millennium. It also corresponds with sunspot minima, indicating that solar irradiance plays an important role in late Holocene climate change.

A debris flow triggered by the breaching of a moraine-dammed lake, Klattasine Creek, British Columbia

1985 ◽  
Vol 22 (10) ◽  
pp. 1492-1502 ◽  
Author(s):  
John J. Clague ◽  
S. G. Evans ◽  
Iain G. Blown
Keyword(s):  
British Columbia ◽  
Debris Flow ◽  
Debris Flows ◽  
Southern Coast ◽  
Coast Mountains ◽  
Debris Avalanches ◽  
Unconsolidated Sediment ◽  
Sudden Release ◽  
Dammed Lake ◽  
Unusual Origin

A very large debris flow of unusual origin occurred in the basin of Klattasine Creek (southern Coast Mountains, British Columbia) between June 1971 and September 1973. The flow was triggered by the sudden release of up to 1.7 × 106 m3 of water from a moraine-dammed lake at the head of a tributary of Klattasine Creek. Water escaping from the lake mobilized large quantities of unconsolidated sediment in the valley below and thus produced a debris flow that travelled in one or, more likely, several surges 8 km downvalley on an average gradient of 10° to the mouth of the stream. Here, the flow deposited a sheet of coarse bouldery debris up to about 20 m thick, which temporarily blocked Homathko River. Slumps, slides, and debris avalanches occurred on the walls of the valley both during and in years following the debris flow. Several secondary debris flows of relatively small size have swept down Klattasine Creek in the 12–14 years since Klattasine Lake drained.

Late Holocene glacial activity in Manatee Valley, southern Coast Mountains, British Columbia, Canada

2011 ◽  
Vol 48 (3) ◽  
pp. 603-618 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lindsey Koehler ◽  
Dan J. Smith
Keyword(s):  
British Columbia ◽  
Late Holocene ◽  
18Th Century ◽  
Ice Age ◽  
Coast Mountains ◽  
Mountain Glaciers ◽  
Subsequent Episode ◽  
Glacial Expansion ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Lichen Growth

The dendroglaciologic and lichenometric research methodologies employed in this study provide a perspective of glaciological conditions from 5 ka to present in a remote headwater area of the British Columbia Coast Mountains. Since Holocene ice fronts of four glaciers at this site periodically extended below treeline, previous glacier advances overrode and buried forests beneath till deposits. This study suggests that glaciers were expanding into standing forests at 4.76 and 3.78 ka. Following glacier expansion at 3.78 ka, a period of recession ensued when glaciers withdrew upvalley long enough for the development of deep pedogenic surfaces and the growth of trees exceeding 300 years. Investigations at Beluga and Manatee glaciers benchmark a subsequent episode of significant glacial expansion at 2.42 ka referred to as the “Manatee Advance”. This advance has regional correlatives and is distinguished from the Tiedemann Advance at Manatee Glacier by documentation of substantive ice front retreat between the two episodes. Examination of Little Ice Age (LIA) deposits in the study area allowed for presentation and application of a revised Rhizocarpon spp. lichen growth curve. Lichenometric surveys of lateral moraines associated with Beluga, Manatee, and Oluk glaciers provided limited insight into their early LIA behaviour but record advances during the 15th and 16th centuries. Locally, glaciers achieved their maximum LIA size prior to an early to mid 18th century moraine-building event. This reconstruction of Holocene glacial history offers insights consistent with the emerging record of glacier activity described for other southern British Columbia Coast Mountain glaciers.

Multi-proxy record of Holocene glacial history of the Spearhead and Fitzsimmons ranges, southern Coast Mountains, British Columbia

2007 ◽  
Vol 26 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 479-493 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gerald Osborn ◽  
Brian Menounos ◽  
Johannes Koch ◽  
John J. Clague ◽  
Vanessa Vallis
Keyword(s):  
British Columbia ◽  
Southern Coast ◽  
Glacial History ◽  
Proxy Record ◽  
Coast Mountains ◽  
History Of

Interdecadal patterns of total sediment yield from a montane catchment, southern Coast Mountains, British Columbia, Canada

Geomorphology ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 118 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 207-212 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erik Schiefer ◽  
Marwan A. Hassan ◽  
Brian Menounos ◽  
Channa P. Pelpola ◽  
Olav Slaymaker
Keyword(s):  
British Columbia ◽  
Sediment Yield ◽  
Southern Coast ◽  
Coast Mountains ◽  
Total Sediment
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