Late Quaternary glaciation in the high mountains of Central Asia
Subtitle: contribution to IGCP 415 and Working Group 5 of Glacial Commission of INQUA
By: guest editors, L.A. Owen, S. Zhou
Series: Quaternary international -- v. 97/98
Publisher: Pergamon, Elsevier
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Kidlington, Oxford; Tarrytown, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 177
Subjects: Stratigraphic Geology; Congresses; Glaciers; Central Asia; Antiquities
Notes: Papers originally presented at a joint meeting of Working Group 2 of IGCP 415 and Working Group 5 of the Glacial Commission of INQUA.

Errata page inserted.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Himalayan glacial sedimentary environments  -- D.I. Benn and L.A. Owen; title: Glacier regime on the northern slope of the Himalaya (Xixibangma glaciers)  -- V.B. Aizen, E.M. Aizen and S.A. Nikitin; title: Timing and style of Late Quaternary glaciation in the eastern Hindu Kush, Chitral, northern Pakistan  -- L.A. Owen ... [et al].; title: Timing of past glaciations in Kanchenjunga Himal, Nepal by optically stimulated luminescence dating of tills  -- S. Tsukamoto ... [et al.]; title: Three Holocene and late Pleistocene glacial stages inferred from moraines in the Lingshi and Thanza village areas, Bhutan  -- S. Iwata, C. Narama and Karma; title: Characteristics of Late Quaternary monsoonal glaciation on the Tibetan Plateau and in East Asia  -- Y Shi; title: The relationship between climate change and Quaternary glacial cycles on the Quinghai-Tibetan Plateau  -- B. Zheng, Q. Xu and Y. Shen; title: Quaternary glaciation of the Bailang River Valley, Qilian Shan  -- S. Zhou, J. Li and S. Zhang; title: Quaternary glaciation of Puruogangri  -- C. Yi, X. Li and J. Qu; title: Response of monsoonal temperate glaciers to global warming since the Little Ice Age  -- Z. Su and Y. Shi; title: Glacial environments on the Tibetan Plateau and global cooling  -- T. Liu ... [et al.]; title: ESR dating of the sediments of the Last Glaciation at the source area of the Urumqi River, Tian Shan Mountains, China -- C. Yi ... [et al.].; title: The Quaternary glaciation of Shesan Mountain in Taiwan and glacial classification in monsoon areas  -- Z. Cui ... [et al.]; title: Late Quaternary palaeoenvironment change and landscape evolution along the Keriya River, Xinjiang, China  -- X. Yang ... [et al.]; title: Loess record of climatic changes during MIS5 in the Hexi Corridor, northwest China  -- G. Wu ... [et al.]; title: Reply to the comments by G.S. Boulton, K.E. Dobbie, S. Zatsepin on: Deforming soft beds under ice sheets -- J.A. Piotrowski ... [et al.].