- glacial history (1) (remove) - The use of 10Be surface
exposure dating of erratic boulders in the reconstruction of the
late Pleistocene glaciation history of mountainous regions, with
examples from Nepal and Central Asia (2004) - Be-10 surface
exposure dating (SED) of erratic boulders is an innovative
approach in Quaternary geochronology. It proves to be an
excellent tool for the reconstruction of the glacial history of
mountainous regions, which is an important part of climate
change research. In the course of this work, I have 1) installed
the analytical procedure to extract in-situ produced Be-10 from
quartz-bearing rock surface samples in the laboratory of the
Institute of Soil Science and Soil Geography at the University
of Bayreuth; 2) developed and calibrated the program TEBESEA for
quick calculation of Be-10 surface exposure ages with fully
propagated errors, thereby evaluating the existing procedures;
3) deduced a new interpretation scheme for exposure age
distributions from several stratigraphica