The Quaternary Ice Age in the Alps

The Quaternary Ice Age in the Alps, Volume Eighteen presents an overview of the present knowledge on environmental change as seen through the history of the quaternary ice age in the Alps. Its main theme is a description of the stratigraphic record produced by fundamental changes in the environment through multiple cycles of glacier advance and retreat.

• Presents a timely contribution to the global climate change discussion
• Assembles the immense amount of quaternary Alpine research into one volume
• Shows the global distribution of climatic fluctuations during the ice age