European Glacial Landscapes Maximum Extent of Glaciations

Langue : Anglais

Coordonnateurs : Palacios David, Hughes Philip D., Garcia-Ruiz Jose M., de Andrés Nuria

Couverture de l’ouvrage European Glacial Landscapes

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European Glacial Landscapes: Maximum Extent of Glaciations brings together relevant experts on the history of glaciers and their impact on the landscape of the main regions of Europe. In some regions the largest recorded glaciations occurred before the Last Glacial Cycle, in one of the major glacial cycles of the Middle Pleistocene. However, the best-preserved evidence of glaciation in the landscape is from the Last Glacial Cycle (Late Pleistocene). The book also analyses these older glacial landforms that can sometimes still be seen in the landscape today. This analysis provides a better understanding of the succession of Pleistocene glaciations and the intervening interglacial periods, examining their possible continental synchrony or asynchrony of past glacier behaviour. The result of this analysis gives important new insights and information on the origin and effects of climatic and geomorphological variability across Europe.

European Glacial Landscapes: Maximum Extent of Glaciations examines the landscapes produced by glaciers throughout Europe, the geomorphological effects of glaciations, as well as the chronology and evolution of the past glaciers, with the aim of understanding the interrelationship between glacial expansion and climate changes on this continent. This book is a valuable tool for geographers, geologist, environmental scientists, researchers in physics and earth sciences.

Part I Introduction 1. Introduction 2. The Quaternary ice ages 3. Previous synthesis of European Glacial Landscapes

PART II The distribution of glacial landscapes in Europe Section 1 European regions that were covered by the European Ice Sheet Complex (EISC) 4. The European Ice Sheet Complex 5. Glacial landscapes of Fennoscandia 6. Glacial landscapes of Northern Central Europe 7. Glacial landscapes of European Russia 8. The Eurasian Arctic 9. The North Sea and Mid-Norwegian continental margin 10. Glacial landscapes of Britain and Ireland Section 2 European regions that not were covered by the EISC 11. Glacial landscapes of the Ural Mountains 12. Glacial landscapes of Iceland 13. Glacial landscapes of the Tatra Mountains 14. Glacial landscapes of the Romanian Carpathians 15. Glacial landscapes of the Alps 16. Glacial landscape of the Pyrenees 17. The Iberian Peninsula (except for the Pyrenees) 18. The Italian Peninsula 19. Glacial landscapes of the Balkans 20. The Anatolian Peninsula

PART III Climate changes during the Last Glacial Cycle in the eastern North Atlantic region Section 1 The Last Glacial Cycle 21. An overview of the Last Glacial Cycle 22. Ice volume and sea-level changes during Last Glacial Cycle: Evidence from marine records 23. Definition of the Last Glacial Cycle marine stages and chronology 24. Abrupt climatic variability: Dansgaard_Oeschger events 25. Abrupt (or millennial or suborbital) climatic variability: Heinrich events/stadials 26. The Global Last Glacial Maximum: the Eastern North Atlantic (marine sediments) and the Greenland Ice Sheet climatic signal

PART IV European glacial landforms prior to the Last Glacial Maximum (Before 29 ka) 27. Concept and global context of the glacial landforms prior to the Last Glacial Maximum Section 1 European regions that were covered by the European Ice Sheet Complex (EISC) 28. The EISC evolution prior to the Last Glacial Maximum 29. Fennoscandia: glacial landforms prior to the Last Glacial Maximum 30. Northern Central Europe: Glacial landforms prior to the Last Glacial Maximum 31. European Russia: Glacial landforms prior to the Last Glacial Maximum 32. The Eurasian Arctic: Glacial landforms prior to the Last Glacial Maximum (before 29 ka) 33. The North Sea and Mid-Norwegian Continental Margin: glacial landforms prior to the Last Glacial Maximum 34. Britain and Ireland: Glacial landforms prior to the Last Glacial Maximum Section 2 European regions that not were covered by the EISC 35. The Ural Mountains: Glacial landforms prior to the Last Glacial Maximum 36. Iceland: Glacial landforms prior to the Last Glacial Maximum 37. The Tatra Mountains: Glacial landforms prior to the Last Glacial Maximum 38. The Romanian Carpathians: Glacial landforms prior to the Last Glacial Maximum 39. The Alps: glacial landforms prior to the Last Glacial Maximum 40. The Pyrenees: glacial landforms prior to the Last Glacial Maximum 41. The Iberian Mountains: glacial landforms prior to the Last Glacial Maximum 42. The Italian mountains: glacial landforms prior to the Last Glacial Maximum 43. The Balkans: glacial landforms prior to the Last Glacial Maximum 44. The Anatolian mountains: Glacial landforms prior to the Last Glacial Maximum Section 3 Synthesis of Part II 45. The European glacial landscapes prior to the Last Glacial Maximumsynthesis

PART V The European glacial landforms from the Last Glacial Maximum (29_19 ka) 46. Concept and global context of the glacial landforms from the Last Glacial Maximum Section 1 European regions that were covered by the European Ice Sheet Complex (EISC) 47. European Ice Sheet Complex evolution during the Last Glacial Maximum (29_19 ka) 48. Fennoscandia: Glacial landforms from the Last Glacial Maximum 49. Northern Central Europe: Glacial landforms from the Last Glacial Maximum 50. European Russia: Glacial landforms from the Last Glacial Maximum 51. The Eurasian Arctic: Glacial landforms from the Last Glacial Maximum 52. The North Sea and Mid-Norwegian continental margin: Glacial landforms from the Last Glacial Maximum 53. Britain and Ireland: Glacial landforms from the Last Glacial Maximum Section 2 European regions that were not covered by the EISC 54. The Ural Mountains: Glacial landforms from the Last Glacial Maximum 55. Iceland: Glacial landforms from the Last Glacial Maximum 56. The Tatra Mountains: Glacial landforms from the Last Glacial Maximum 57. The Romanian Carpathians: Glacial landforms from the Last Glacial Maximum (29_19 ka) 58. The Alps: Glacial landforms from the Last Glacial Maximum 59. The Pyrenees: Glacial landforms from the Last Glacial Maximum 60. The Iberian Mountains: Glacial landforms from the Last Glacial Maximum 61. The Italian mountains: Glacial landforms from the Last Glacial Maximum 62. The Balkans: Glacial landforms from the Last Glacial Maximum 63. The Anatolian Mountains: Glacial landforms from the Last Glacial Maximum Section 3 Synthesis of Part IV 64. The European glacial landscapes from the Last Glacial Maximum-Synthesis

PART VI Synthesis of the European Landscapes from maximum glacial extension 65. The importance of European glacial landscapes in a context of great climatic variability

David Palacios is Full Professor of Physical Geography at the Complutense University of Madrid, Spain. He has been the coordinator for Spanish National Projects since 1998 to the present, and Spanish coordinator of two European Projects. He has served as founder and director of the High Mountain Physical Geography excellence research group for 12 years, and has authored over 200 international research papers, 100 chapters, and has edited five books.
Philip Hughes is Professor of Physical Geography at the University of Manchester, United Kingdom. He obtained his first degree in geography at the University of Exeter graduating in 1999. This was followed by a Masters in Quaternary Science, then a PhD in Geography (2004), both at the University of Cambridge (Darwin College). His PhD was on the glacial history of the Pindus Mountains, Greece. This was then followed by a postdoctoral research project examining the glacial history of Montenegro at the University of Manchester (2004-2006). He has since worked on glaciation across the Mediterranean mountains in Greece, Albania, Montenegro, Croatia, Spain and with recent research activities focusing on the Atlas Mountains, Morocco. His research has utilised U-series dating and cosmogenic nuclides to date moraines in a variety of different lithologies, from limestones to basalts. In addition to studies of Mediterranean mountain glaciations he has also published on global glaciations and stratigraphy in Quaternary science. In addition to several edited scientific volumes on glaciation, in 2016 he published the textbook The Ice Age with co-authors Jürgen Ehlers and Philip Gibbard. In 2011 Philip also edited with these co-authors the highly successful Elsevier volume Quaternary Glaciation: Extent and Chronology – A Closer Look. Philip Hughes is Professor of Physical Geography at the University of Manchester, United Kingdom.
José M. García-Ruiz is Ad Honorem Research Professor of the National Research Council of Spain (CSIC

Provides a synthesis that highlights the main similarities or differences, through both space and time, during the maximum recorded expansions of Pleistocene glaciers in Europe
Features research from experts in glacial geomorphology, palaeo-glaciology, palaeo-climatology and palaeo-oceanography on glacial expansion in Europe
Includes detailed color figures and maps, providing a comprehensive comparison of the glacial landscapes of European Pleistocene glaciers