Late Quaternary glacial phases in the Iberian Peninsula

M Oliva, D Palacios, JM Fernández-Fernández… - Earth-Science …, 2019 - Elsevier
The only glaciers existing today in the Iberian Peninsula are small features located in the
Pyrenees, though their number and extension has undergone significant changes over the …

Spatial and temporal variability of periglaciation of the Iberian Peninsula

M Oliva, E Serrano, A Gómez-Ortiz… - Quaternary Science …, 2016 - Elsevier
Active periglacial processes are currently marginal in the Iberian Peninsula, spatially limited
to the highest mountain ranges. However, a wide variety of periglacial deposits and …

Atmospheric circulation over Europe during the Younger Dryas

BR Rea, R Pellitero, M Spagnolo, P Hughes… - Science …, 2020 - science.org
The Younger Dryas (YD) was a period of rapid climate cooling that occurred at the end of the
last glaciation. Here, we present the first palaeoglacier-derived reconstruction of YD …

Heinrich Stadial aridity forced Mediterranean-wide glacier retreat in the last cold stage

JL Allard, PD Hughes, JC Woodward - Nature Geoscience, 2021 - nature.com
Throughout the last cold stage, the North Atlantic region was punctuated by abrupt climate
shifts and atmospheric processes propagated their effects to adjacent continents. During …

Deglaciation in the central Pyrenees during the Pleistocene–Holocene transition: Timing and geomorphological significance

D Palacios, JM García-Ruiz, N Andrés… - Quaternary Science …, 2017 - Elsevier
In this study, we document deglaciation in a sector of the southern–central Pyrenees (the
Panticosa massif and the upper Gállego and Ossau valleys) using cosmic-ray exposure …

Timing and new geomorphologic evidence of the last deglaciation stages in Sierra Nevada (southern Spain)

D Palacios, A Gómez-Ortiz, N Andrés… - Quaternary Science …, 2016 - Elsevier
The main objective of this research is to improve knowledge of the deglaciation stages in
Sierra Nevada (southern Spain) by applying 36 Cl cosmogenic exposure dating to 28 …

Mountain glacier evolution in the Iberian Peninsula during the Younger Dryas

JM García-Ruiz, D Palacios… - Quaternary Science …, 2016 - Elsevier
We review the evolution of glaciers in the Iberian Mountains during the Younger Dryas (12.9–
11.7 ka, following the chronology of Greenland Stadial 1–GS1) and compare with available …

Early Holocene humidity patterns in the Iberian Peninsula reconstructed from lake, pollen and speleothem records

M Morellón, J Aranbarri, A Moreno… - Quaternary Science …, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract Comparison of selected, well-dated, lacustrine, speleothem and terrestrial pollen
records spanning the Holocene onset and the Early Holocene (ca. 11.7–8 cal kyrs BP) in the …

Sequence and chronology of the Cuerpo de Hombre paleoglacier (Iberian Central System) during the last glacial cycle

RM Carrasco, J Pedraza, D Domínguez-Villar… - Quaternary Science …, 2015 - Elsevier
Abstract The Cuerpo de Hombre paleoglacier occupies the upper sector of the Cuerpo de
Hombre river basin, located on the northwest slope of the Sierra de Béjar Mountains (Iberian …

Chronology of glaciations in the Cantabrian Mountains (NW Iberia) during the Last Glacial Cycle based on in situ-produced 10Be

L Rodríguez-Rodríguez, M Jiménez-Sánchez… - Quaternary Science …, 2016 - Elsevier
The mountain ranges of the Iberian Peninsula preserve a valuable record of past glaciations
that may help reconstruct past atmospheric circulation patterns in response to cooling events …