Little Ice Age glaciers in the Balkans: Low altitude glaciation enabled by cooler temperatures and local topoclimatic controls

Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 229-241

  Hughes, P D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Durmitor; Glaciers; Little Ice Age; Montenegro; Palaeoclimate

Indexed keywords

19TH CENTURY; ALPINE GLACIER; EQUILIBRIUM LINE ALTITUDES; EUROPEAN ALPS; HOLOCENES; LICHENOMETRY; LITTLE ICE AGE; LOCAL CONTROL; LOW ALTITUDES; PALAEOCLIMATE; PLEISTOCENE; YOUNGER DRYAS;

ALTITUDE CONTROL; COOLING SYSTEMS; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; ICE; SNOW;

GLACIERS;

AVALANCHE; GLACIATION; GLACIER; LICHENOMETRY; LITTLE ICE AGE; MORAINE; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOTEMPERATURE; PLEISTOCENE; SHADING; SNOW; YOUNGER DRYAS;

BALKANS; MONTENEGRO;

EID: 77649136673     PISSN: 01979337     EISSN: 10969837     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/esp.1916     Document Type: Article

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