Historical to post-glacial glaciation and their differentiation from the Late Glacial period on examples of the Tian Shan and the N.W. Karakorum

Tibet and High-Asia

Auteur :
MEINERS, S.

Description :
The historical to post-glacial glacier positions have been reconstructed from the recent glaciation history of selected examples. A chronological classification of the glacial events in phases can be defined by calculating the snow-line depression after taking the relief factor into account. A decrease in the elevation of the glacial surface is a more important factor, compared to the oscillations of the glacial tongue, influencing the development of the multiphase, lateral moraines that characterise the Holocene glacial fluctuations.


Type de document :
Article de monographie

Source :
GeoJournal, issn : 0343-2521, 1997, vol. 42, n°. 2-3, p. 259-302, Collation : Illustration, Références bibliographiques : 43 ref.

Date :
1997

Editeur :
Pays édition : Allemagne, Heidelberg, Springer