Onset of major Pleistocene glaciations in the Alps

• Main Authors: G. Muttoni, C. Carcano, E. Garzanti, M. Ghielmi, A. Piccin, R. Pini, S. Rogledi, D. Sciunnach
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: English
• Published: 2003
• Subjects: Settore GEO/02 - Geologia Stratigrafica e Sedimentologica; Greenland; Penck; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2434/346704

Since alligators patrolled Greenland swamps in the Eocene, the Earth's climate underwent significant cooling, which culminated in the Pleistocene Ice Age with recurring glaciations in vast regions of the Alps, Eurasia and North America, and overgrowth of polar icecaps in Antarctica and Greenlan...