Millennial?scale deglaciation across the European Alps at the transition between the Younger Dryas and the Early Holocene – evidence from a new cosmogenic nuclide chronology

Reconstructing the spatial and temporal response of mountain glaciers to rapid climate change in past provides access effects current change. Yet, variability glacier fluctuations is not fully understood. In this study, we focus on timing European Alps during Younger Dryas/Early Holocene (YD/EH) transition. an effort elucidate whether were synchronous period, present a new chronology Alpine Talèfre glacier, based 14 10Be ages moraines roches moutonnées. The retreat was initiated mid-YD (~12.4 ka), then it experienced gradual punctuated by at least three oscillations until ?11 ka before shrinking substantially within its Little Ice Age limits (13th?19th centuries). Comparison our findings with published chronologies region highlights broadly behaviour across between 12 10 ka. coeval regional scale suggest that common conditions had major impact variations YD/EH similarity independent temperature records both northern high latitudes suggests teleconnection these regions, but differences amplitude mean annual signals relative summer indicate pronounced changes seasonality YD EH.