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 …

Permafrost conditions in the Mediterranean region since the Last Glaciation

M Oliva, M Žebre, M Guglielmin, PD Hughes… - Earth-Science …, 2018 - Elsevier
The relatively warm climate conditions prevailing today in the Mediterranean region limit
cold geomorphological processes only to the highest mountain environments. However …

Climate reconstruction for the last two millennia in central Iberia: The role of East Atlantic (EA), North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) and their interplay over the Iberian …

G Sánchez-López, A Hernández, S Pla-Rabès… - Quaternary science …, 2016 - Elsevier
A multi-proxy characterization of the uppermost sedimentary infill of an Iberian alpine lake
(Cimera, 2140 m asl) was performed to establish the climatic and environmental conditions …

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 …

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 …

Early maximum extent of paleoglaciers from Mediterranean mountains during the last glaciation

D Domínguez-Villar, RM Carrasco, J Pedraza… - Scientific reports, 2013 - nature.com
Mountain glaciers respond directly to changes in precipitation and temperature, thus their
margin extent is a high-sensitivity climate proxy. Here, we present a robust 10Be chronology …

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 …

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 …

Maximum extent of Late Pleistocene glaciers and last deglaciation of La Cerdanya mountains, Southeastern Pyrenees

D Palacios, A Gómez-Ortiz, N Andrés… - Geomorphology, 2015 - Elsevier
This paper examines glacial evolution in the La Pera and Malniu cirques, and Arànser, La
Llosa and Duran valleys, in the Cerdanya massifs on the south-facing slopes of the eastern …