Wuermian glaciation and climate in the western Mediterranean based on investigations in the mountain chain of Corsica

• Main Author: Krumrei, Ingrid
• Other Authors: Kuhlemann, Joachim (Prof.)
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: Universität Tübingen 2009
• Subjects: Vergletscherung; Korsika; Klima; Mittelmeer; 550; LGM; Glaciation; Corsica; Climate; Mediterranean; Ela; Voll; Western Basin; Nordpol*; North Atlantic
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10900/49281; http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:21-opus-38803

Based on new reconstructions of the ultimate glaciation and the corresponding ELA depression in Corsica constrained by cosmogenic and luminescence age dating, a new climatic model is evolved for the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) in the Western Mediterranean. Dating of Corsican glacial sediments and gla...