The Quaternary Ice Age in the Alps

Christian Schluchter (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

226 Seiten

2017
Elsevier Science Ltd (Verlag)
9780444537928 (ISBN)

Infos

The Quaternary Ice Age in the Alps, Volume Eighteen presents an overview of the present knowledge on environmental change as seen through the history of the quaternary ice age in the Alps. Its main theme is a description of the stratigraphic record produced by fundamental changes in the environment through multiple cycles of glacier advance and retreat.

Autor

Christian Schluechter is Professor Emeritus for the Institute of Geological Science at the University of Bern. His research interest includes quaternary geology, glaciers, and ice ages. He previously served as the chair of Quaternary and Environmental Geology at the University of Bern. He has done extensive fieldwork in the Alps and on all the continents, including 8 expeditions to Antarctica.For many years, Christian has been actively engaged in the International Union for Quaternary Research (INQUA) for which he organised the International Congress in 2011 in Bern.

Inhalt

1. Causes and effects of ice ages
2. The Alps in a global context
3. The Last Glaciation
4. The last warm period
5. Older extensive glaciations
6. Older warm periods
7. The Middle Pleistocene Events (MPE) / Revolutions (MPR)
8. Pre-MPE /MPR glaciations
9. Karst
10. North-South and East-West disharmonies
11. Reference sections / Proposals for excursions
12. Why is the Quaternary (Period) important?
13. Open questions
14. References

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.9.2017
• Reihe/Serie: Developments in Quaternary Science
• Verlagsort: Oxford
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 191 x 235 mm
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geologie
• ISBN-13: 9780444537928 / 9780444537928
• Zustand: Neuware