Earth Paleoenvironments: Records Preserved in Mid- and Low-Latitude Glaciers (Developments in Paleoenvironmental Research (9))

glaciers Provide An Unparalleled Tool For Studying Global Environmental Change. This Book Is The First Of Its Kind Concentrating On The Paleoenvironmental Record Archived In Mid- And Low-latitude Glaciers. By Concentrating Mainly On The Last 500 Years Of These Records, We Can Now See That Laws Enacted To Protect Our Environment In Europe And North America Are Providing Positive Results. Documenting Global Mid- And Low-latitude Paleoenvironmental Records In Glaciers, This Volume Forms A Timely And Essential Complement To The Wealth Of Literature On Polar And Greenland Ice Sheet Records. this Text Is Directed Towards Undergraduate And Graduate University Audiences And Forms An Ideal Supplement In Courses Dealing With Climate And Global Environmental Change, Glaciology, And Natural Resources Management. It Is Also Suitable In Helping Teach Application Of Innovative Analytical And Interpretive Methods And Would Be An Excellent Example Of The Rapidly Emerging Discipline Of Forensic Earth Science. Preliminaries......Page 1 Dedication......Page 6 Contents......Page 8 Contributing Authors......Page 12 Preface......Page 16 Foreword......Page 20 Acknowledgments......Page 24 List of Acronyms and Abbreviations......Page 26 1. High-Altitude, Mid and Low-Latitude Ice Core Records......Page 36 2. Methods of Mid- and Low-Latitude Glacial Record Collection......Page 50 3. The Influence of Post-Depositional Effects on Ice Core Studies......Page 72 4. Event to Decadal-Scale Glaciochemical Variability on the Inilchek Glacier, Central Tien Shan......Page 94 Climatic Interpretation of the Gradient in Glaciochemical Signals Across the Crest of the Himalaya......Page 114 6. Reconstruction of European Air Pollution from Alpine Ice Cores......Page 128 7. Glacier Research in Mainland Scandinavia......Page 154 8. Four Centuries of Climatic Variation Across the Tibetan Plateau from Ice-Core Accumulation and 18O Records......Page 180 9. Climatic Changes over the Last 400 Years Recorded in Ice Collected from the Guliya Ice Cap, Tibetan Plateau......Page 198 10. Evidence of Abrupt Climate Change and the Development of an Historic Mercury Deposition Record Using Chronological Refinement of Ice Cores at Upper Fremont Glacier......Page 216 11. Variations between 18O in Recently Deposited Snow and On-Site Air Temperature, Upper Fremont Glacier, Wyoming......Page 252 Summary......Page 270 Index......Page 278 "This comprehensive and up-to-date synthesis is of particular interest to practicing professionals, university professors, researchers, university and government libraries, as well as to government regulators, provincial, and federal natural resource programs."--BOOK JACKET