Present Glaciers of Tavan Bogd Massif in the Altai Mountains, Central Asia, and Their Changes since the Little Ice Age

• Published in: Geosciences
• Main Authors: Dmitry A. Ganyushkin, Kirill V. Chistyakov, Ilya V. Volkov, Dmitry V. Bantcev, Elena P. Kunaeva, Tatyana A. Andreeva, Anton V. Terekhov, Demberel Otgonbayar
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2018
• Subjects: Inner Asia; Altai; glaciers; shrinkage; LIA; present dynamics; Turgen; taiga
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.3390/geosciences8110414

The Tavan Bogd mountains (of which, the main peak, Khuiten Uul, reaches 4374 m a.s.l.) are situated in the central part of the Altai mountain system, in the territories of Russia, Mongolia and China. The massif is the largest glacierized area of Altai. The purposes of this study were to provide a fu...