Quaternary Glaciations - Extent and Chronology

Part III: South America, Asia, Africa, Australia, Antarctica

J. Ehlers, P.L. Gibbard

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2004
• ISBN:
  9780080474083
• Topic: Physical Sciences
• Subtopic: Geology & Earth Sciences

This book is the last of three volumes in which the recent knowledge of the extent and chronology of Quaternary glaciations has been compiled on a global scale. This information is seen as a fundamental requirement, not only for the glacial community, but for the wider user-community of general Quaternary workers. In particular the need for accurate ice-front positions is a basic requirement for the rapidly growing field of palaeoclimate modelling. In order to provide the information for the widest-possible range of users in the most accessible form, a series of digital maps was prepared.

The glacial limits were mapped in ArcView, the Geographical Information System (GIS) used by the work group. Included with the publication is a CD with digital maps, showing glacial limits, end moraines, ice-dammed lakes, glacier-induced drainage diversions and the locations of key sections through which the glacial limits are defined and dated. Where controversial interpretations are possible, such as for High Asia, they are indicated. All information on Quaternary glaciations worldwide is presented for the first time in a uniform format, including the mountain glaciations of regions such as Costa Rica, Ethiopia or Taiwan. The digital maps in this volume cover Latin America, Asia, Africa, Australasia, Antarctica. Both overview maps and more detailed maps at a scale 1: 1, 000, 000 are provided.

Also available: Part I: Europe, ISBN 0-444-51462-7 Part II: North America, ISBN 0-444-51592-5

Table of contents

• Cover
• Foreword
• Preface
• Contents
• Late Pleistocene Glaciation of the Hindu Kush, Afghanistan
• Quaternary Glacial and Climate History of Antarctica
• Glaciations in the Magellan Straits and Tierra Del Fuego, Southernmost South America
• Glaciations in Argentine Patagonia, Southern South America
• Pleistocene Glaciations in the Mendoza Andes, Argentina
• The Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) Glacier Cover of the Aconcagua Group and Adjacent Massifs in the Mendoza Andes (South America)
• Late Quaternary Glaciations of Bolivia
• The Pleistocene Glaciations of Chile
• Quaternary Glaciations in China
• The Quaternary Glacial Record of the Colombian Andes
• Late Quaternary Glaciation of Costa Rica and Guatemala, Central America
• Quaternary Glaciations in the East African Mountains
• Late Quaternary Glaciations of Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia
• Late Quaternary Glaciations of Ecuador
• Quaternary Glacial Activity on the Ethiopian Mountains
• The High Glacial (Last Ice Age and LGM) Ice Cover in High and Central Asia
• Late Quaternary Glaciation of Northern India
• Glaciation of Malaysia and Indonesia, Excluding New Guinea
• Pleistocene Glaciation of Iraq
• Late Quaternary Glaciations in Japan
• Quaternary Glacial Chronology of Mount Kenya Massif
• Late Quaternary Glaciation of Mexico
• The extent of Late Pleistocene Glaciations in the Altai and Khangai Mountains
• Quaternary Glaciation in the Atlas Mountains of North Africa
• Quaternary Glaciation in the Nepal Himalaya
• The Glaciation of the Rolwaling Himal and the Kangchenjunga Himal during the Last Glacial Maximum (Nepal, E- Himalaya)
• South Island, New Zealand; Ice Advances and Marine Shorelines
• Quaternary Glaciations in the High Mountains of Northern Pakistan
• Landforms from the Quaternary Glaciation of Papua New Guinea: an Overview of Ice Extent during the Last Glacial Maximum
• Quaternary Glaciation of North-Eastern Asia
• Quaternary Glaciation in the High Mountains of Central and North-East Asia
• Glaciation in Southern Africa
• Quaternary Glaciation of the sub-Antarctic Islands
• Traces of Glaciation in the High Mountains of Taiwan
• Quaternary Glaciations of Tasmania and their Ages
• Pleistocene Glaciations in Southern and Eastern Tibet
• Index