{"id":745,"date":"2025-08-11T23:41:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T23:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/couplet.unbc.ca\/?page_id=745"},"modified":"2025-08-11T23:41:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T23:41:11","slug":"cosmogenic-nuclide-dating","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/couplet.unbc.ca\/?page_id=745","title":{"rendered":"Cosmogenic Nuclide Dating"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As part of my research, I often use cosmogenic nuclide dating to reconstruct the timing and extent of past glaciers and ice sheets. The interactive map below shows dated sample locations from my own work and related collaborative research.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" \n  src=\"https:\/\/caleb-math.github.io\/menounos_cosmo_samples\/map.html\"\n  width=\"100%\"\n  height=\"700\"\n  style=\"border:none;\">\n<\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">References<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Most of the samples on the map are sourced from these publications:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Darvill, C.M., Menounos, B., Goehring, B.M., Lian, O.B., Caffee, M.W., 2018. Retreat of the western Cordilleran ice sheet margin during the last deglaciation. <em>Geophysical Research Letters<\/em> 45(18), 9710\u20139720. <a>https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1029\/2018GL078799<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Darvill, C.M., Menounos, B., Goehring, B.M., Lesnek, A.J., 2022. Cordilleran Ice Sheet stability during the last deglaciation. <em>Geophysical Research Letters<\/em> 49(10), e2021GL097191. <a>https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1029\/2021GL097191<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Goehring, B.M., Menounos, B., Osborn, G., Hawkins, A., Ward, B., 2022. Reconciling the apparent absence of a Last Glacial Maximum alpine glacial advance, Yukon Territory, Canada, through cosmogenic beryllium-10 and carbon-14 measurements. <em>Geochronology<\/em> 4(1), 311\u2013322. <a>https:\/\/doi.org\/10.5194\/gchron-4-311-2022<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Hawkins, A.C., Goehring, B.M., Menounos, B., 2025. Terrestrial cosmogenic nuclide bedrock depth profiles used to infer changes in Holocene glacier cover, Vintage Peak, southern Coast Mountains, British Columbia. <em>Geochronology<\/em> 7(2), 157\u2013172. <a>https:\/\/doi.org\/10.5194\/gchron-7-157-2025<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Hawkins, A.C., Menounos, B., Goehring, B.M., Osborn, G.D., Pelto, B.M., Darvill, C.M., Schaefer, J.M., 2023. Late Holocene glacier and climate fluctuations in the Mackenzie and Selwyn mountain ranges, northwestern Canada. <em>The Cryosphere<\/em> 17(10), 4381\u20134397. <a>https:\/\/doi.org\/10.5194\/tc-17-4381-2023<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Hawkins, A.C., Menounos, B., Goehring, B.M., Osborn, G.D., Clague, J.J., Jensen, B., 2021. Tandem dating methods constrain late Holocene glacier advances, southern Coast Mountains, British Columbia. <em>Quaternary Science Reviews<\/em> 274, 107282. <a>https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.quascirev.2021.107282<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Jones, A.G., Marcott, S.A., Gorin, A.L., Kennedy, T.M., Shakun, J.D., Goehring, B.M., Menounos, B., Clark, D.H., Romero, M., Caffee, M.W., 2023. Four North American glaciers advanced past their modern positions thousands of years apart in the Holocene. <em>The Cryosphere<\/em> 17(12), 5459\u20135475. <a>https:\/\/doi.org\/10.5194\/tc-17-5459-2023<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Menounos, B., Clague, J.J., Clarke, G.K.C., Marcott, S.A., Osborn, G., Clark, P.U., Tennant, C., Novak, A.M., 2013a. Did rock avalanche deposits modulate the late Holocene advance of Tiedemann Glacier, southern Coast Mountains, British Columbia, Canada? <em>Earth and Planetary Science Letters<\/em> 384, 154\u2013164. <a>https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.epsl.2013.09.019<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Menounos, B., Clague, J.J., Osborn, G., Davis, P.T., Ponce, F., Goehring, B., Maurer, M., Rabassa, J., Coronato, A., Marr, R., 2013b. Latest Pleistocene and Holocene glacier fluctuations in southernmost Tierra del Fuego, Argentina. <em>Quaternary Science Reviews<\/em> 77, 70\u201379. <a>https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.quascirev.2013.07.016<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Menounos, B., Goehring, B.M., Osborn, G., Margold, M., Ward, B., Bond, J., Clarke, G.K.C., Clague, J.J., Lakeman, T., Koch, J., et al., 2017. Cordilleran Ice Sheet mass loss preceded climate reversals near the Pleistocene Termination. <em>Science<\/em> 358(6364), 781\u2013784. <a>https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1126\/science.aan3001<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of my research, I often use cosmogenic nuclide dating to reconstruct the timing and extent of past glaciers and ice sheets. The interactive map below shows dated sample <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/couplet.unbc.ca\/?page_id=745\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-745","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/couplet.unbc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/couplet.unbc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/couplet.unbc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/couplet.unbc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/couplet.unbc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=745"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/couplet.unbc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":750,"href":"https:\/\/couplet.unbc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/745\/revisions\/750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/couplet.unbc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}