The Quaternary
glacial history of the Arctic Ocean is characterized by the repeated build - up and decay of circum - Arctic ice sheets on the continental shelves, the development and disintegration of ice shelves, and related changes in ocean - circulation patterns and sea ice cover50, 51,52,53,54,55.
The sediment records collected during the IODP Expedition 379 will enable scientists to better understand
the glacial history of the area and the environmental impact of this enormous ice sheet.
Mariana Esteves is currently working on reconstructing
the glacial history of the central Barents Sea in the Arctic.
The goals of the selected stops are to underscore the current understanding of the late
glacial history of the western Superior basin and to provide new insights to spark discussion.
Because I hold a degree in geology, and spent many days of my college career puzzling out
the glacial history of the Great Lakes region, Nye's statements about ice ages were especially astonishing.
Banfield, L.A., and Anderson, J.B., 1995, Seismic Facies Investigation of Late Quaternary
Glacial History of Bransfield Basin, Antarctica, AGU Antarctic Research Series, v. 68, 123 - 140.
Clapperton, C M and Sugden, D E 1982 Late Quaternary
glacial history of George VI Sound area, West Antarctica Quaternary Research 18, 243 - 267.
Pope, P.G. and Anderson, J.B., 1992, Late Quaternary
glacial history of the northern Antarctic Peninsula's western continental shelf: Evidence from the marine record, in Elliot, D.H. ed., Contributions to Antarctic Research III, Antarctic Research Series, Volume 57, American Geophysical Union, Washington, D.C., p. 63 - 91.
Herron, M.J. and Anderson, J.B., 1989, Late Quaternary
glacial history of the South Orkney Plateau, Antarctica: Quaternary Research, v. 33, p. 265 - 275.
Not exact matches
Pioneer
history comes to life this weekend during the 10th anniversary of the «TRAIL OF HISTORY» at Glacia
history comes to life this weekend during the 10th anniversary
of the «TRAIL OF HISTORY» at Glacial Par
of the «TRAIL
OF HISTORY» at Glacial Par
OF HISTORY» at Glacia
HISTORY» at
Glacial Park.
Titled «Origin, Paleoecology and Extirpation
of Bluebirds and Crossbills in the Bahamas Across the Last
Glacial - Interglacial Transition,» the authors are Janet Franklin, distinguished professor
of biogeography in UCR's College
of Natural and Agricultural Sciences, and David Steadman, curator
of ornithology at the Florida Museum
of Natural
History at the University
of Florida.
* Chinese
glacial deposits show that three
of the oldest and coldest ice ages in Earth's
history date from 600 to 750 million years ago.
«The first step was to reconstruct the
history of global mean temperatures for the last 784,000 years, using combined data from marine sediment cores, ice cores, and computer simulations covering the last eight
glacial cycles,» said Friedrich, a post-doctoral researcher at IPRC.
Ice core records are rich archives
of the climate
history during
glacial - interglacial cycles over timescales
of up to ~ 800 kyr before the current age.
The Holocene is the name given to the last 11,700 years *
of the Earth's
history — the time since the end
of the last major
glacial epoch, or «ice age.»
During the
history of Earth, there have been a series
of periods in which a significant portion
of the hydrosphere was locked up in the form
of glacial ice.
The
history of Scotland is known to have begun by the end
of the last
glacial period (in the paleolithic), roughly 10,000 years ago.
Board the ferry in Port Hardy, neighbouring the village
of Gwa «sala - Nakwaxda «xw and the Kwakiutl First Nation, and journey north through a landscape
of rugged
glacial fjords, towering old - growth rainforests and rich
history, into Nuxalk Nation territory in Bella Coola.
The exhibition catalog features an essay by Mark A. Cheetham, a professor
of art
history at the University
of Toronto titled «
Glacial Urgency: The Time
of Diane Burko's Paintings in the Cryosphere».
The bottom line is that climatic change effects are being experienced RIGHT NOW; some are subtle while others are more overt, like
glacial retreat, an increase in the severity and unpredictability
of weather phenomena, or the North Polar ice cap shrinking to its lowest surface area in
history.
I'd like to see someone study whether the 150 - year
history of alpine
glacial retreat tracks more closely with reduction
of mature forest near glaciers than it does with atmospheric CO2 levels.
Walt, if you've ever studied Pleistocene geology and the million year
history of glacial advances and interglacial warming cycles you would know human - induced global warming and climate changes are the dominant cause
of current and future catastrophic consequences.
What lessons can we learn from the past
history of glacial ice melt and sea - level rise about what will happen in the next century as the climate warms?
Meanwhile, this biomarker approach has been used successfully in many studies dealing with the reconstruction
of Arctic sea ice
history during the last
glacial to Holocene time interval, i.e., the last about 30 ka31, 32,33,34,35,36,37.
A comprehensive circumpolar overview
of glacial landforms, stratigraphies, and chronologies and their interpretation in terms
of glacial history, is given by Jakobsson et al. 54, summarizing the current state
of knowledge and identifying key questions arising from this synthesis.
Reconstructed mass balance yielded accumulation and ablation each
of ~ 3 km3 / yr, with
glacial movement near the equilibrium line altitude dominated by basal sliding.Pollen and charcoal records from three lakes in northern Yellowstone provide information on the postglacial vegetation and fire
history.
Thus
history strongly suggests periods
of accelerated
glacial thinning are natural and quite common.
The climate
history of the past few million years is characterized by repeated transitions between «cold» (
glacial) and «warm» (interglacial) climates.
Last
glacial maximum was the period in the
history of the planet when ice sheets covered significant part
of the Northern hemisphere.
For the past 2.5 m years climate has been usually unstable with a sucession
of glacials and interglacials, that are otherwise uncommon in geological
history.
As the worlds» oldest and most scrutinised instrumental temperature record it usefully covers much
of the «Little Ice Age» when the most extensive recent
glacial advances in the Holocene began, whilst numerous contemporary records make it possible to examine earlier periods in British climatic
history.
The climate
history of the past few million years is characterised by repeated transitions between «cold» (
glacial) and «warm» (interglacial) climates.
Glacial and sea level
history of northwest Alaska.
Glacial and sea level
history of northeast Russia.
Glacial isostatic adjustment, why we have glacial and interglacial periods, how we can reconstruct climate history, and how the Earth is responding to the retreat of the continental gl
Glacial isostatic adjustment, why we have
glacial and interglacial periods, how we can reconstruct climate history, and how the Earth is responding to the retreat of the continental gl
glacial and interglacial periods, how we can reconstruct climate
history, and how the Earth is responding to the retreat
of the continental glaciers.
Figure 103 in Hubert Lamb's «Climate
History and the Modern World» shows an estimate
of the growing season near the upper limit
of cultivation in Scotland which mirrors much
of the
glacial record and demonstrates a steady - but not constant - improvement after a modest peak in the mid 1550's - from the trough
of the early 1600's to the present day.
«The Arctic system is moving toward a new state that falls outside the envelope
of glacial - interglacial fluctuations that prevailed during recent Earth
history.
The climate
history of Earth during the
glacial - interglacial cycles
of the last 1 million years provides an essential context for an understanding
of current climate changes, including the relations between solar irradiance, greenhouse gas (GHG) forcing, albedo changes and global temperatures.
[Also, just to give an idea
of the change we are talking about, 5 degrees Celsius might not sound like much, but that is the difference in global average temperature between the coldest period
of an ice age and the hottest period
of a warm period or «interglacial» in the Earth's
glacial history in the modern epoch.]