Lewis, C. A., and Illgner, P. M. 2001. Late Quaternary glaciation in southern Africa: moraine ridges and glacial deposits at Mount Enterprise in the ABSTRACT: Late Quaternary moraines and diamictons containing striated clasts are described from near Elliot in the Drakensberg of South Africa. An equilibrium line altitude (ELA) of 2109 m is suggested for the palaeoglacier associated with the innermost moraine. This glacier was fed by a very extensive snowblow area and the ELA may reflect the temperature-precipitation-wind ELA rather than the temperature-precipitation ELA and be considerably below the 'regional' ELA. Mean annual air temperatures when glaciation occurred were probably at least 10.0°C below those of the present.

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ABSTRACT. We present the first marine reservoir age and ∆R determination for the island of St. Helena using marine mollusk radiocarbon dates obtained from an historical context of known age. This represents the first marine reservoir age and ∆R determination in the southern Atlantic Ocean within thousands of kilometers of the island. The depletion of 14 C in the shells indicates a rather larger reservoir age for that portion of the surface Atlantic than models indicate. The implication is that upwelling old water along the Namibian coast is transported for a considerable distance, although it is likely to be variable on a decadal timescale. An artilleryman's button, together with other artifacts found in a midden, demonstrate association of the mollusk shells with a narrow historic period of AD 1815-1835.