Taylor Dome: Cosmogenic Isotopes

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Please cite these data correctly! Primary references are given below and with the data files. All files are tab-delimited and should open easily in Microsoft Excel and similar programs.

Please cite these data correctly!

¹⁰Be, ³⁶Cl and ¹⁴C have all been measured on Taylor Dome ice. A continous profile (1 to 5 m averages) of beryllium-10 data is available, along with the st9810 timescale (see description of st9810 above). Higher-resolution data for selected sections of the core are also available and will be on this web page shortly. All ¹⁰Be samples were processed at the University of Washington and analyzed at the Center for Accelerator Mass Spectrometry at Livermore (CA).

References:

Steig EJ, Morse DL, Waddington ED, Stuiver M, Grootes PM, Mayewski PM, Whitlow SI, Twickler MS. Wisconsinan and Holocene climate history from an ice core at Taylor Dome, western Ross Embayment, Antarctica. Geografiska Annaler (in press).
Steig EJ, Brook EJ, White JWC, Sucher CM, Bender ML, Lehman SJ, Morse DL, Waddington ED, Clow GD. 1998. Synchronous climate changes in Antarctica and the North Atlantic. Science 282 (5386): 92-95 (1998).
Steig EJ, Morse DL, Waddington ED, Polissar PJ. Using the sunspot cycle to dates ice cores. Geophysical Research Letters 25: 163- 166 (1998).
Steig EJ, Polissar PJ, Stuiver M, Finkel RC, Grootes PM. 1996. Large amplitude solar modulation cycles of ¹⁰Be in Antarctica: implications for atmospheric mixing processes and interpretation of the ice core record. Geophysical Research Letters 23: 523-526.
Steig EJ, Polissar PJ, Stuiver M. Cosmogenic isotope concentrations at Taylor Dome, Antarctica. Antarctic journal of the United States 30, 95-97 (1995).