Lower Victoria Valley (14 – 21 Nov)

1. Sample ice in modern glacial and lake environments at snout of Lower Victoria Glacier. Sample buried ice and ice cemented sediment down valley (stream) from Lower Victoria Glacier.
2. Sample several soil profiles for atmospheric Be-10 on top of buried ice, down valley from Lower Vic Glacier.
3. Sample inflationary sand soils on the interfluves of lateral melt water channels. These sands will be dated by OSL to get an accumulation rate and approximate age of interfluve surface.
4. Collecting samples of granite plutons for Pb-Pb isotopic fingerprinting. This information will be used to identify sources of granitic clasts in glacial tills.