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- First comprehensive overview of the glacial history of Tibet and High Asia
- Excellent learning tool thanks to high-resolution satellite images and terrestrial photos
- Compact summary of the last 40 years of research
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This book summarizes four decades of glacial-geomorphological field research in Central and High Asia in an attempt to draw a significant link between Quaternary science research and paleoclimatology. Based on the latest geomorphological findings, this study offers a large-scale reconstruction of the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) that in High Asia encompassed a total expanse of no less than three million km2, including the Central Tibetan plateau with 2.4 million km2. The author offers a complete reconstruction of the Late Glacial, Holocene, and Historical glacier advances as well as the successive Postglacial ablation stages extending to the present.
Taken together, the findings presented here provide the first insights into a global-climatic impact of the Last Glacial Maximum in Central and High Asia with respect to the current interglacial stage. The comparative data analyses point to an inland glaciation at subtropical latitude covering an area larger than the Nordic inland glaciation in Greenland. These insights are facilitated by a methodological approach, unprecedented in modern Quaternary research, that combines high-quality panoramic photography with high-resolution satellite imagery. This combination of terrestrial and aerial perspectives enables scientists and readers alike to visualize the geomorphology of the landscape as a three-dimensional space. The author’s successful union of digital big data resources with classical geomorphological analysis offers an exciting new template for future research in Quaternary science and related fields.
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Book Title: The Glaciation of High Asia
Book Subtitle: From the Last Ice Age to the Present
Authors: Matthias Kuhle
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-77566-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-77564-7Published: 12 July 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-08481-3Published: 30 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-77566-1Published: 27 June 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 300
Number of Illustrations: 9 b/w illustrations, 206 illustrations in colour
Topics: Remote Sensing/Photogrammetry, Geomorphology, Earth System Sciences