The precise timing and character of glaciations in Patagonia from MIS 6 to the Little Ice Age

• Main Author: Peltier, Carly
• Format: Thesis
• Language: unknown
• Published: Columbia University 2021
• Subjects: Paleoclimatology; Geomorphology; Geology; FOS Earth and related environmental sciences; Glaciers; Glacial epoch; Holocene Geologic Period; Moraines; Patagonia; Magallanes; Estrecho; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.7916/d8-46v3-qr64; https://academiccommons.columbia.edu/doi/10.7916/d8-46v3-qr64

By only considering records of climate and glaciers over the period that humans have been monitoring them, one might think that climate normally changes quite rapidly, and that glaciers have always been small. But in the not-so-distant past, an ice sheet covered the Southern Andes, flowing across th...