Reconstruction of Last Glacial Maximum glaciers and palaeoclimate in the central Taurus Range, Mt. Karanfil, of the Eastern Mediterranean

A rare piedmont glaciation in the Mediterranean: Insights from cosmogenic 36Cl dating of Davraz hummocky moraine field (SW Türkiye)

“…This choice was influenced by the fact that the study area is one of the regions (The Dinaric Mountains) with the highest rainfall in Europe. On the other hand, cosmogenic dating investigations focused on carbonate lithology in the Taurus Mountains, researchers have adopted an erosion rate of either 5 mm ka −1 (Sarıkaya et al, 2014; Çiner et al, 2015; Çiner and Sarıkaya, 2017; Köse et al, 2022) or 10 mm ka −1 (Sarıkaya et al, 2017; Çiner et al, 2017; Köse et al, 2019; Altınay et al, 2022). In a recent study by Hashemi et al (2023), the long‐term denudation rate of carbonate rocks in the Taurus Mountains was determined range from 1.92 ± 0.31 to 45.77 ± 3.91 mm ka −1 using the cosmogenic 36 Cl isotope.…”

“…While they proposed cosmogenic 36 Cl ages corrected for erosion as low as 0.6 mm ka −1 , they acknowledge the possibility of higher rates (greater than 10 mm ka −1 ) within their study area in Greece. In another study conducted by Köse et al (2022) in the eastern part of the Central Taurus Mountains, the erosion rate was determined as 3 mm ka −1 based on the chert vein thickness. This rate was evaluated alongside the erosion rate of 7 mm ka −1 obtained from a depth profile of an alluvial fan (Sarıkaya et al, 2015) near the region, and the erosion rate on the surface of the moraine blocks was accepted as 5 mm ka −1 .…”

“…The formation of piedmont glaciers is rare in the Eastern Mediterranean and likely uncommon in similar mid‐latitude locations worldwide (Çiner et al, 2015) (e.g., Çiner et al, 2019; Hughes et al, 2006; Smith et al, 1997). Several hummocky moraine fields were reported by various researchers on glaciated mountains of Mediterranean mountains (e.g., Bayrakdar, 2012; Bayrakdar et al, 2017; Çiner, 2004; Çiner et al, 1999, 2017; Çiner & Sarıkaya, 2017; Cowton et al, 2009; Đurović, 2020; Köse et al, 2019, 2021, 2022; Moulin et al, 2022; Sarıkaya et al, 2009, 2014, 2017; Serrano‐Cañadas & Martín‐Moreno, 2018). Some of these mountains include hummocky moraine exposure ages derived from terrestrial cosmogenic nuclide (TCN) dating such as Mt.…”

Modelled sensitivity of Monte San Lorenzo ice cap, Patagonian Andes, to past and present climate

“…Similar to previous studies that used PISM to compute the evolution and sensitivity of ice caps and ice fields (e.g., Golledge et al, 2012;Ziemen et al, 2016;Jouvet et al, 2017;Schmidt et al, 2020;Žebre et al, 2021;Köse et al, 2022), our model for the MSL ice cap used boundary distributions for the ice thickness, bed topography, climate (surface mass balance) and basal heat flux from a combination of datasets, which we described below.…”