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Last Glacial Maximum and Younger Dryas piedmont glaciations in Blidinje, the Dinaric Mountains (Bosnia and Herzegovina): insights from 36Cl cosmogenic dating

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The highest parts of the Dinaric Mountains along the eastern Adriatic coast of the southern Europe, known for their typical Mediterranean karst-dominated landscape and very humid climate, were glaciated during the Late Pleistocene. Palaeo-piedmont type glaciers that originated from Čvrsnica Mountain (2226 m a.s.l.; above sea level) in Bosnia and Herzegovina deposited hummocky, lateral and terminal moraines into the Blidinje Polje. We constrained the timing of the largest recognized glacier extent on Svinjača and Glavice piedmont glaciers by applying the cosmogenic 36Cl surface exposure dating method on twelve boulder samples collected from lateral, terminal and hummocky moraines. Using 40 mm ka–1 bedrock erosion rate due to high precipitation rates, we obtained 36Cl ages of Last Glacial Maximum (LGM; 22.7 ± 3.8 ka) from the hummocky moraines, and Younger Dryas (13.2 ± 1.8 ka) from the lateral moraine in Svinjača area. The amphitheater shaped terminal moraine in Glavice area also yielded a Younger Dryas (13.5 ± 1.8 ka) age within the error margins. Our results provide a new dataset, and present a relevant contribution towards a better understanding of the glacial chronologies of the Dinaric Mountains. Because our boulder ages reflect complex exhumation and denudation histories, future work is needed to better understand these processes and their influence on the cosmogenic exposure dating approach in a karstic landscape.

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This work was supported by the Istanbul Technical University Research Fund (project MGA-2017-40540), by the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TÜBİTAK-118Y052), by the Slovenian Research Agency (research core funding no. P1-0011, P6-0229(A) and P1-0025), and by the Department of Geography, University of Ljubljana. Nevesinje climate data are provided courtesy of the Federal Hydrometeorological Institute, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. We are very thankful to Klaus Wilcken at the ANSTO Lab in Australia for AMS measurements. We also acknowledge laboratory assistance of Oğuzhan Köse (Istanbul Technical University). We thank reviewers Marc Oliva and Philip Hughes, and editor Catherine Kuzucuoğlu for their helpful suggestions that improved the quality of the paper.

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    Attila Çiner, M. Akif Sarıkaya & Cengiz Yıldırım

  2. Department of Geography, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana, Aškerčeva 2, 1000, Ljubljana, Slovenia

    Uroš Stepišnik

  3. Department of Geography and Earth Sciences, Aberystwyth University, Aberystwyth, UK

    Manja Žebre

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Çiner, A., Stepišnik, U., Sarıkaya, M.A. et al. Last Glacial Maximum and Younger Dryas piedmont glaciations in Blidinje, the Dinaric Mountains (Bosnia and Herzegovina): insights from 36Cl cosmogenic dating. Med. Geosc. Rev. 1, 25–43 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s42990-019-0003-4

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