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Modelling the effects of ice transport and sediment sources on the form of detrital thermochronological age probability distributions from glacial settings
Univ Rennes, CNRS, Géosciences Rennes, UMR 6118, 35000 Rennes,
France
Philippe Steer
Univ Rennes, CNRS, Géosciences Rennes, UMR 6118, 35000 Rennes,
France
Kerry Gallagher
Univ Rennes, CNRS, Géosciences Rennes, UMR 6118, 35000 Rennes,
France
David Lundbek Egholm
Department of Geoscience, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
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Short summary
Detrital thermochronometric age distributions of frontal moraines have the potential to retrieve ice erosion patterns. However, modelling erosion and sediment transport by the Tiedemann Glacier ice shows that ice velocity, the source of sediment, and ice flow patterns affect age distribution shape by delaying sediment transfer. Local sampling of frontal moraine can represent only a limited part of the catchment area and thus lead to a biased estimation of the spatial distribution of erosion.
Detrital thermochronometric age distributions of frontal moraines have the potential to retrieve...
