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Absence of Glaciation in Illinois during Marine Isotope Stages 3 through 5

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

B. Brandon Curry  and
Milan J. Pavich
B. Brandon Curry
Affiliation:
Illinois State Geological Survey, 615 E. Peabody Dr. Champaign, Illinois, 61820
Milan J. Pavich
Affiliation:
United States Geological Survey, Mail Stop 955, National Center, Reston, Virginia, 22092
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Abstract

A10Be inventory and14C ages of material from a core from northernmost Illinois support previous interpretations that this area was ice free from ca. 155,000 to 25,000 yr ago. During much of this period, from about 155,000 to 55,000 yr ago, 10Be accumulated in the argillic horizon of the Sangamon Geosol. Wisconsinan loess, containing inherited 10Be, was deposited above the Sangamon Geosol from ca. 55,000 to 25,000 yr ago and was subsequently buried by late Wisconsinan till deposited by the Lake Michigan Lobe of the Laurentide Ice Sheet. The Sangamonian interglacial stage has been correlated narrowly to marine oxygen isotope substage 5e; our data indicate instead that the Sangamon Geosol developed during late stage 6, all of stages 5 and 4, and early stage 3.

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Quaternary Research , Volume 46 , Issue 1 , July 1996 , pp. 19 - 26
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University of Washington

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