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 …

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 …

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 …

Deglaciation in the central Pyrenees during the Pleistocene–Holocene transition: Timing and geomorphological significance

D Palacios, JM García-Ruiz, N Andrés… - Quaternary Science …, 2017 - Elsevier
In this study, we document deglaciation in a sector of the southern–central Pyrenees (the
Panticosa massif and the upper Gállego and Ossau valleys) using cosmic-ray exposure …

Glaciers, rock avalanches and the 'buzzsaw'in cirque development: Why mountain cirques are of mainly glacial origin

IS Evans - Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
It has been proposed that most cirques are source‐area depressions of large, deep‐seated
rock‐slope failures. Yet the close relation between cirques and climate is convincing …

Timing of deglaciation and rock glacier origin in the southeastern Pyrenees: a review and new data

N Andrés, A Gómez‐Ortiz, JM Fernández‐Fernández… - Boreas, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The aim of this research is to improve our current understanding of the deglaciation stages
in the southeastern Pyrenees and integrate it into reconstructions of the long‐term …

Post‐little ice age paraglacial processes and landforms in the high Iberian mountains: A review

E Serrano, M Oliva, M González‐García… - Land Degradation & …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Three Iberian mountain ranges encompassed glaciers during the Little Ice Age (LIA): the
Pyrenees, Cantabrian Mountains, and Sierra Nevada. The gradual warming trend initiated …

[HTML][HTML] Penultimate glacial cycle glacier extent in the Iberian Peninsula: new evidence from the Serra da Estrela (Central System, Portugal)

G Vieira, D Palacios, N Andrés, C Mora, LV Selem… - Geomorphology, 2021 - Elsevier
The objective of this work is to present a first assessment on the age of the glacial features of
the Serra da Estrela, in the central Portugal, Iberian Peninsula (40° 19′ N, 7° 37′ W, 1993 …

Climatic conditions between 19 and 12 ka in the eastern Pyrenees, and wider implications for atmospheric circulation patterns in Europe

T Reixach, M Delmas, R Braucher, Y Gunnell… - Quaternary Science …, 2021 - Elsevier
The chronology of the most extensive Late Pleistocene glaciation in the eastern Pyrenees is
now well established, but climatic variations during the subsequent Last Glacial-to …

A radiometric dating revolution and the Quaternary glacial history of the Mediterranean mountains

JL Allard, PD Hughes, JC Woodward - Earth-Science Reviews, 2021 - Elsevier
Large glaciers and ice caps formed in the Mediterranean mountains during the cold stages
of the Pleistocene and some small glaciers remain today. Here we review 157 outputs that …