The Little Ice AgeMethuen, 1988 - 498 pagine First scholarly work devoted to the Little Ice Age, that period from 1600 to about 1850 when the glaciers retreated.--Blurb. |
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Introduction I | 1 |
Scandinavia | 64 |
The massif of Mont Blanc | 108 |
Copyright | |
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ablation Alpine Alps annual Baffin cent chronology cirques climatic change cold cooling Cumberland Peninsula curve decades deposits Drangajökull east eastern eruptions evidence extent farm Figure flood front Gellatly glacial advances glacial expansion glacier fluctuations Greenland Grindelwald hemisphere Heusser Himalaya Holocene Holocene glacial ice sheet icecap icefield Iceland increased indicate Island Jostedalsbreen Karakoram Karlén km² late lateral moraines lichen lichenometry Little Ice Age mass balance maximum metres Mont Blanc moraines dated mountains Neoglacial Nigardsbreen nineteenth century northern Norway observations Öræfi Ötztal Peak period phases photographs Plate pollen positions precipitation radiocarbon dates Range reached readvance receded recent recession records region retreat Rhizocarpon Richter river Rofen Röthlisberger Scandinavia sea ice sequence Shan snowline southern summer surface survey Svartisen Tasman glacier temperature Temple Lake tephra terminal Thórarinsson tongue treeline trees twentieth century valley variations Vatnajökull Vernagt Vernagtferner volcanic warm western winter Zealand