Remarkably extensive glaciation and fast deglaciation and climate change in Turkey near the Pleistocene-Holocene boundary

Geology

Volumn 39, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1051-1054

  Zreda, Marek ^a   Çiner, Attila ^b   Sarikaya, Mehmet Akif ^a,c   Zweck, Chris ^a   Bayari, Serdar ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b HACETTEPE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c FATIH UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; AVERAGE RATE; CLIMATE SHIFTS; COSMOGENIC; DEGLACIATIONS; EQUILIBRIUM LINE ALTITUDES; GLACIER RETREAT; HOLOCENES; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; PLEISTOCENE; PRODUCTION RATES; RATE OF CHANGE; SCALING FACTORS; SURFACE EXPOSURE AGE; TEMPERATURE RISE;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

GLACIAL GEOLOGY;

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE VARIATION; DEGLACIATION; GLACIATION; GLACIER RETREAT; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; MORAINE; PALEOCLIMATE; PLEISTOCENE-HOLOCENE BOUNDARY;

TAURIDES; TURKEY;

EID: 84857499258     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 19432682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G32097.1     Document Type: Article

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