Holocene glacier fluctuations and climate changes in the southeastern part of the Russian Altai (South Siberia) based on a radiocarbon chronology

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 43, Issue , 2012, Pages 74-93

  Agatova, A R ^a   Nazarov, A N ^b   Nepop, R K ^a   Rodnight, H ^c  

^a SOBOLEV INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND MINERALOGY   (Russian Federation)

^b SIBERIAN FEDERAL UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^c UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

Climatic variations; Glacier fluctuations; Holocene glaciations; Radiocarbon dating; Russian Altai; Upper tree limit

Indexed keywords

CLIMATIC VARIATION; GLACIER FLUCTUATIONS; HOLOCENES; RADIOCARBON DATING; RUSSIAN ALTAI; UPPER TREE LIMIT;

CLIMATE CHANGE; DATA PROCESSING; DEGRADATION; FORESTRY; ICE; LANDFORMS; PEAT;

GLACIAL GEOLOGY;

ARCHAEOLOGY; ARIDITY; BURIAL (GEOLOGY); CLIMATE VARIATION; DATA SET; EXHUMATION; FOSSIL RECORD; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GLACIATION; GLACIER ADVANCE; GLACIER DYNAMICS; GLACIER MASS BALANCE; GLACIER RETREAT; GLACIOLOGY; HOLOCENE; MELT; MORAINE; NINETEENTH CENTURY; PEAT; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); PROGLACIAL ENVIRONMENT; RADIOCARBON DATING; WARMING; WOOD;

DATA PROCESSING; DEGRADATION; ECOLOGY; PEAT; RADIOACTIVE MATERIALS; SEASONAL VARIATION; SIBERIA; SNOW;

ALTAI MOUNTAINS; ALTAY [RUSSIAN FEDERATION]; CHUYA ALPS; RUSSIAN FEDERATION;

EID: 84860853669     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2012.04.012     Document Type: Article

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