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Credit chascar via CC-By-2.0 New research suggests the Teton Glacier in the Teton Range is much older than originally thought. Darren Larsen, assistant professor in the department of geology at Occidental College in California, and his team looked at the sediment in the glacial lake below the glacier to see how it would react to the warming climate. And it turns out the glacier has survived in some form for the last ten thousand years. Including during the earlier parts of the Holocene or interglacial, which are considered to be a little bit warmer and or a little bit drier than today, said Larsen. ....
Written by Associated Press on December 12, 2020 JACKSON, Wyo, (AP) When Darren Larsen pushed off in a packraft into Delta Lake four years ago, he expected that he would probe down a few feet into sediment produced by seven or so centuries of glacial runoff. His metal probe, instead, kept sinking and sinking. The paleoclimatologist and Occidental College professor was after the deposited sludge and silt to let him understand the Teton Glacier, which grinds over the gneiss and pulses sediment-laden meltwater into Delta Lake each spring and summer. It amasses in layers under the emerald waters, hinting at the history of glacial activity in aptly named Glacier Gulch. ....