Measuring landscape change in the polar regions with thermochronometry

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• Dr Matthew Fox - UCL
• Monday 03 February 2025, 18:00-19:00
• Harker 1 lecture room, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Site.

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Understanding how ice sheets change due to ongoing climate change is important and this requires numerical models. Times in Earth’s history that had a similar climate to predictions of the future can be used to test these model predictions. However, as ice sheets wax and wane they erode the landscape. This modifies how much ice the landscape can support. Therefore, it is crucial that we are able to accurately constrain landscape change. Thermochronometry, measures how rocks cool as they are brought to the surface by erosion and can be used to measure landscape change. I will present examples of using thermochronometry to understand landscape change in Greenland and Antarctica. 

This talk is part of the Sedgwick Club talks series.

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