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Geomorphological record of the glacial to periglacial transition from the Bølling–Allerød to the Holocene in the Central Pyrenees: the Lòcampo cirque in the regional context

Marcelo Fernandes
Marc Oliva
José María Fernández-Fernández
Gonçalo Vieira
David Palacios
Julia Garcia-Oteyza
Josep Ventura

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In the highest tributaries of the Upper Garonne Basin, Central Pyrenees, cirques up to 2600 m a.s.l. were already deglaciated by 15–14 ka. The long‐term deglaciation during Termination‐1 (T‐1) was interrupted by glacial advances within the cirques during the Bølling–Allerød (B‐A) interstadial and the Younger Dryas stadial. The cirques preserve a variety of glacial and periglacial landforms whose chronologies are poorly known. This study is focused on the Lòcampo cirque (42°38′06″N and 0°59′10″E), Upper Garonne Basin, where a detailed geomorphological map and 10 Be terrestrial cosmic ray exposure (CRE) dating allowed us to constrain the chrono‐sequence between the glacial and periglacial domains. In the small Lòcampo cirque, a glacier formed a cirque moraine between 2200 and 2300 m a.s.l., which surrounds a relict rock glacier encompassing several transversal ridges. Additionally, longitudinal ridges typically observed in debris‐covered glaciers are preserved between the moraine and the rock glacier. The eight‐sample data set of CRE ages indicates the formation of the cirque moraine during the second half of the B‐A, by 13.2±1.1 ka. Exposure ages from the rock glacier boulders show a range between 13.6±0.9 and 11.9±0.7 ka, which did not allow its formation to be chronologically constrained. Therefore, the environmental evolution following the moraine stabilization could follow the formation of a debris‐covered glacier at the bottom of the Lòcampo cirque, with the subsequent formation of the rock glacier. After the rock glacier formation, its front rapidly ceased at 13.6±0.9 ka, while the upper ridges gradually stabilized until it became definitively relict at 11.9±0.7 ka or afterwards. These results show evidence of the complex glacial to periglacial transition that needs more robust chronological data sets to better understand the role of climate forcing and local topography during the deglaciation in mid‐latitude mountain environments.
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hal-04480790 , version 1 (02-03-2024)

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Marcelo Fernandes, Marc Oliva, José María Fernández-Fernández, Gonçalo Vieira, David Palacios, et al.. Geomorphological record of the glacial to periglacial transition from the Bølling–Allerød to the Holocene in the Central Pyrenees: the Lòcampo cirque in the regional context. Boreas, 2023, 53 (1), pp.71-87. ⟨10.1111/bor.12633⟩. ⟨hal-04480790⟩
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