Radiometric chronology of Neh-nar glacier, Kashmir.

Abstract

Surface and core samples have been analysed for the radionuclides 32Si, 210Pb, 40K, and 137Cs. The ice samples have been dated on the basis of a simplified two-component model showing that: 1) the model age of the snout ice is c850 years; 2) the average rate of ice movement in the lower glacier is about 2 m/year, which compares well with the annual movement rate of 2.65 m/year observed since 1974.-after Authors