Full Description
Glaciers provide an unparalleled tool for studying global environmental change. This book is the first of its kind concentrating on the paleoenvironmental record archived in mid- and low-latitude glaciers. By concentrating mainly on the last 500 years of these records, we can now see that laws enacted to protect our environment in Europe and North America are providing positive results. Documenting global mid- and low-latitude paleoenvironmental records in glaciers, this volume forms a timely and essential complement to the wealth of literature on polar and Greenland ice sheet records.
This text is directed towards undergraduate and graduate university audiences and forms an ideal supplement in courses dealing with climate and global environmental change, glaciology, and natural resources management. It is also suitable in helping teach application of innovative analytical and interpretive methods and would be an excellent example of the rapidly emerging discipline of "Forensic Earth Science".
Contents
High Altitude, Mid- and Low-Latitude Ice Core Records: Implications for Our Future.- Methods of Mid- and Low-Latitude Glacial Record Collection, Analysis, and Interpretation.- The Influence of Post-Depositional Effects on Ice Core Studies: Examples From the Alps, Andes, and Altai.- Event to Decadal-Scale Glaciochemical Variability on the Inilchek Glacier, Central Tien Shan.- Climatic Interpretation of the Gradient in Glaciochemical Signals Across the Crest of the Himalaya.- Reconstruction of European Air Pollution from Alpine Ice Cores.- Glacier Research in Mainland Scandinavia.- Four Centuries of Climatic Variation Across the Tibetan Plateau from Ice-Core Accumulation and ?18O Records.- Climatic Changes Over the Last 400 Years Recorded in Ice Collected From The Guliya Ice Cap, Tibetan Plateau.- Evidence of Abrupt Climate Change and the Development of an Historic Mercury Deposition Record Using Chronological Refinement of Ice Cores at Upper Fremont Glacier.- Variations Between ?18O in Recently Deposited Snow and on-Site Air Temperature, Upper Fremont Glacier, Wyoming.
