Optically stimulated luminescence dating of sediments over the past 200,000 years

EJ Rhodes - Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, 2011 - annualreviews.org
Optical dating of sediment using optically stimulated luminescence has become important
for studying Earth surface processes, and this technique continues to develop rapidly. A …

Timing of glaciation during the last glacial cycle: evaluating the concept of a global 'Last Glacial Maximum'(LGM)

PD Hughes, PL Gibbard, J Ehlers - Earth-Science Reviews, 2013 - Elsevier
It has long been known that mountain glaciers and continental ice sheets around the globe
reached their respective maximum extent at different times during the last glacial cycle, often …

Environmental and climate change in the southern Central Pyrenees since the Last Glacial Maximum: A view from the lake records

P González-Sampériz, J Aranbarri, A Pérez-Sanz… - Catena, 2017 - Elsevier
In this contribution we compile and summarize the available paleo-environmental lacustrine
data for the last 20,000 years from the southern Central Pyrenees (from west to east: El …

Late Quaternary glacial phases in the Iberian Peninsula

M Oliva, D Palacios, JM Fernández-Fernández… - Earth-Science …, 2019 - Elsevier
The only glaciers existing today in the Iberian Peninsula are small features located in the
Pyrenees, though their number and extension has undergone significant changes over the …

Permafrost conditions in the Mediterranean region since the Last Glaciation

M Oliva, M Žebre, M Guglielmin, PD Hughes… - Earth-Science …, 2018 - Elsevier
The relatively warm climate conditions prevailing today in the Mediterranean region limit
cold geomorphological processes only to the highest mountain environments. However …

A maximum in global glacier extent during MIS 4

AM Doughty, MR Kaplan, C Peltier, S Barker - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2021 - Elsevier
The most recent maximum in global ice volume occurred around 23,000 to 19,000 years
ago, during Marine Isotope Stage 2 (MIS 2;∼ 29-14 ka) according to benthic δ 18 O and sea …

Quaternary glaciation in the Mediterranean mountains: a new synthesis

PD Hughes, JC Woodward - Geological Society, London, Special …, 2017 - lyellcollection.org
The Mediterranean mountains were repeatedly glaciated during the Pleistocene. Glaciers
were present in most of the major mountains areas from Morocco in the west to the Black …

Denudation history and palaeogeography of the Pyrenees and their peripheral basins: an 84-million-year geomorphological perspective

M Calvet, Y Gunnell, B Laumonier - Earth-Science Reviews, 2021 - Elsevier
This review provides a synthesis of the evolution of the Pyrenees since~ 84 Ma and is
uniquely focused on analysing jointly and comparatively its peripheral pro-foreland, retro …

Pleistocene ice caps on the coastal mountains of the Adriatic Sea

PD Hughes, JC Woodward, PC Van Calsteren… - Quaternary science …, 2010 - Elsevier
Ice caps once covered large areas of Mount Orjen (1894 m), on the Adriatic coast of
Montenegro/Bosnia Herzegovina/Croatia. The largest ice cap covered an area of c. 165 km2 …

Heinrich Stadial aridity forced Mediterranean-wide glacier retreat in the last cold stage

JL Allard, PD Hughes, JC Woodward - Nature Geoscience, 2021 - nature.com
Throughout the last cold stage, the North Atlantic region was punctuated by abrupt climate
shifts and atmospheric processes propagated their effects to adjacent continents. During …