The Quaternary Ice Age in the Alps (Electronic book text)

This book present an overview of the present knowledge on environmental change as seen in the history of the Quaternary ice-age of the Alps. Its main theme is the stratigraphic record produced by fundamental changes in the environment through multiple cycles of glacier advance and retreat.

- timely and needed contribution to the global change discussion, formerly not available in English

- assembles the immense amount of research that has been done in the Alps into one volume

- provides understanding to the global distribution of climatic fluctuations during the ice age

- provides an insgith into paleoglaciological, environmental and climatic reconstructions