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Snowline altitude and climate in the central Andes (5-28 degrees S) at present and during the late Pleistocene glacial maximum

Posted on:1994-07-06Degree:Ph.DType:Dissertation
University:Cornell UniversityCandidate:Fox, Andrew NormanFull Text:PDF
GTID:1470390014995101Subject:Geology
Abstract/Summary:
The present and late Pleistocene snowlines in the Peruvian Andes (5-17;The present snowline, inferred from 10,488 new observations, rises from as low as 4.7 ;The lowest late Pleistocene snowline, inferred from 16,773 new observations, rose from east to west and ranged in altitude from 3.2 to 5.2 (...
Keywords/Search Tags:Late pleistocene, Snowline, Present
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