European Glacial Landscapes. The Holocene

Table of Contents

Part I Introduction 1. Introduction to the Holocene glacial landscapes 2. Homogenisation of cosmic-ray exposure ages 3. Quaternary interglacials 4. Synthesis of Holocene glacial landscapes in Europe Part II Climate changes during the Holocene in eastern North Atlantic and Europe 5. Introduction to the Holocene climate 6. Greenlandian Stage (Early Holocene, 11.7_8.2 ka) 7. Northgrippian Stage (Middle Holocene, 8.2_4.2 ka) 8. Meghalayan Stage (Late Holocene, 4.2 ka_present) 9. Synthesis and perspectives: drivers, rhythms, and spatial patterns of Holocene climate change Part III The European glacial landforms during Holocene 10. Holocene glacial landscapes of the Russian Arctic and the Urals 11. Holocene glacial landscapes of Svalbard 12. Holocene glacial history and landforms of Iceland 13. Early Holocene glacial landscapes and final-stage deglaciation of the Fennoscandian Ice Sheet 14. Holocene glacial landscapes of the Scandinavian Peninsula 15. Holocene glacial and periglacial landscapes of Britain and Ireland 16. Glacial landscape evolution during the Holocene in Northern Central Europe 17. Glacial landscape evolution during the Holocene in the Tatra Mountains 18. Glacial landscape evolution during the Holocene in the Romanian Carpathians 19. Holocene glacier variations in the Northern Caucasus, Russia 20. Holocene glacier variations in the Alps 21. The Pyrenees: glacial landforms from the Holocene 22. Holocene glacial landscapes of the Iberian Mountains 23. Holocene glacial landscape of the Apennine Mountains 24. Holocene glacial landscapes of the Atlas Mountains, Morocco 25. Holocene glacial landscapes of the Balkans 26. Holocene glacial landscapes of the Anatolian Peninsula Part IV Synthesis of the European Landscapes during the Holocene 27. The European Glacial Landscapes from the Early Holocene 28. The European Glacial Landscapes from the Middle Holocene 29. The European glacial landscapes from the Late Holocene 30. Recent evolution and perspectives of European glacial landscapes

Authors

David Palacios Professor, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain. 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 D. Hughes Professor of Physical Geography, University of Manchester, UK. 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. This was followed by a Master's degree in Quaternary Science, then a PhD in Geography, 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 project examining the glacial history of Montenegro at the University of Manchester. He has since worked on glaciation across the Mediterranean mountains and in the British Isles. In this research he has utilised U-series dating and cosmogenic nuclides to date glacial landforms. He has also published on global glaciations and stratigraphy in Quaternary science and in 2011 Philip also co-edited, with J�rgen Ehlers and Philip Gibbard, the highly successful Elsevier volume Quaternary Glaciation: Extent and Chronology - A Closer Look. Vincent Jomelli Director of Research, Centre national de la recherche scientifique, France. Dr. Vincent Jomelli is a director of research at Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) and a geomorphologist who works at CEREGE at the University of Aix-Marseille France. He has worked on natural hazards and palaeoglacial studies conducted in different alpine regions in Europe, Asia and in the southern hemisphere. In this research he has utilised cosmogenic nuclides to date glacial landforms and he has published on global glacier variations during the Holocene published in Quaternary science reviews. He has written several papers on Holocene glacier fluctuations in the Pyrenees, the French Alps, the tropical Andes, Greenland, Caucasus, and Kerguelen. He has also been involved in scientific papers on contemporary glaciology and mass balance of glaciers in Nepal, tropical Andes, Kerguelen and Antarctica. Luis M. Tanarro Professor of Physical Geography, University of Madrid, Spain. Dr. Luis M. Tanarro is Professor of Physical Geography at the Complutense University of Madrid (Spain). His PhD was on the application of computer-aided design (CAD) and geographic information system (GIS) to high detailed geomorphological mapping. His main research is focused on the monitoring geomorphological processes in mountains and on the development and design of geomorphological cartography with CAD and SIG techniques. He is Principal investigator of over 16 research projects, in which he has responsibility for the geo-visualisation of the cartography in accordance with the application of the latest methodologies and technologies. He has published nearly 100 research papers on the dynamics of deglaciation in mountains, on monitoring of geomorphological processes and its impact on geodiversity. In addition to the Iberian mountains, he has conducted research in Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt and Iceland, which has given her a broad understanding of land surface processes in cold climate environments.