Dating ice sheet retreat and advance along the lobate southern margin of the Laurentide Ice Sheet with terrestrial cosmogenic nuclides
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Project Summary
Project Summary
This project seeks to examine the timing of Laurentide Ice Sheet retreat from the southern Great Lakes region through the lens of terrestrial cosmogenic nuclides. Specifically, we will be determining exposure ages of glacial erratics left behind by the retreating Lake Michigan, Mackinac, Saginaw, and Huron Lobes of the Laurentide Ice Sheet. This project will develop the research capacity of Geoscience faculty at Eastern Michigan University, make courses with Great Lakes glacial content more accessible to EMU undergraduate students, and kick-start the Great Lakes Earth Exchange, an invited speaker series predominantly for graduate students from other universities in the Great Lakes to speak to EMU undergrads to share findings from their research and career advice.
Image: Quaternary Geology map of Southern Michigan, by Farrand and Bell (1982)
Image: Quaternary Geology map of Southern Michigan, by Farrand and Bell (1982)
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Great Lakes Earth Exchange Speaker Series
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Project funded by the National Science Foundation (Award #2432698)
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