Holocene glacier culminations in the Western Alps and their hemispheric relevance

Geology

Volumn 40, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 891-894

  Schimmelpfennig, I ^a   Schaefer, J M ^a,b   Akcar N ^c   Ivy Ochs, S ^d   Finkel, R C ^e   Schluchter C ^c  

^a Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^d ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE OSCILLATION; COOLING TRENDS; EUROPEAN ALPS; GREENLAND; HOLOCENE CLIMATE; HOLOCENES; LATE HOLOCENE; LITTLE ICE AGE; MIDLATITUDES; MOUNTAIN GLACIERS; NATURAL VARIABILITY; NORTH ATLANTIC; SWISS ALPS; TEMPERATURE CHANGES; TROPICAL CLIMATES; TROPICAL PRECIPITATION; TURNING POINTS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

TROPICS;

AGE DETERMINATION; CLIMATE VARIATION; COOLING; GEOLOGICAL RECORD; GLACIER; GLACIER ADVANCE; GRIP; HOLOCENE; LITTLE ICE AGE; PALEOCLIMATE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT; WARMING; WATER TEMPERATURE;

ALPS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); WESTERN ALPS;

EID: 84868692168     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 19432682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G33169.1     Document Type: Article

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