Observations from contemporary glaciated systems, primarily through marine geophysics (swath bathymetry, seismic), geochronology, and advances in sedimentary provenance, have proven instrumental in establishing genetic relationships. However, to interpret Empagliflozin dynamic state of the ice, the sedimentary signal must be resolved in terms of mass fluxes of characteristic glacial facies. Doing so requires chronological control at the timescale of the ice response function, which fundamentally limits the types of climate forcing that can be evaluated. Establishing absolute rates of sediment transfer is easiest at annual timescales in modern ice-proximal settings, but becomes increasing difficult for the Pleistocene because of reduced chronometric precision. Moreover, to isolate the glacial/climatic signal in the sink record, it is necessary to account for transfer mechanisms from ice-proximal (fjord) to ice-distal (deep sea) locales that complicate the signal, e.g., mass redistribution, gravity flows, ice rafting, and ocean circulation.
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