Glaciological studies in Mexico, 60 years of academic work: A summary
Alejandro Carrillo-Chavez,
Hugo Delgado-Granados,
Lorenzo Vazquez-Selem
et al.
Abstract:Glaciers have played a very important role in controlling the climate during most of the geologic history of our planet Earth. Of course, the glaciers have always been at higher latitudes (north and south), and some on high-altitude mountains. Current glaciers in Mexico are those inherited from the Last Glacial Maximum, (26000 - 19000 years before the present), increasing in size during the period of the Little Ice Age (1300 to 1850 common era), and they are unique in several ways; they are located at 19° nort… Show more
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