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

• Main Author: Ganyushkin, Dmitry A. and Chistyakov, Kirill V. and Volkov, Ilya V. and Bantcev, Dmitry V. and Kunaeva, Elena P. and Andreeva, Tatyana A. and Terekhov, Anton V. and Otgonbayar, Demberel
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: Turgen; taiga
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/15062

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...