Recent behaviour of the Debeli Namet glacier, Durmitor, Montenegro

Hughes, Philip D.

doi:10.1002/esp.1537

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“…Recent U-series dates from secondary calcites within moraines from sites across Montenegro indicate that the largest glaciations occurred during the Middle Pleistocene cold stages (Hughes and Woodward, unpublished data). At the head of the Karlica valley in the Durmitor massif, there is a modern glacier with a suite of large frontal moraines dated using lichenometry to the late 19th and early 20th centuries (Hughes, 2007). Around 1 km down-valley of this small glacier, just above the Struga pass between the peaks of Meped (2287 m a.s.l.)…”

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“…Secondary calcites within these moraines have been dated using U-series and provide a minimum age for the host moraines. A modern glacier -the Debeli Namet -is present at the head of the valley (Hughes, 2007). These U-series dates are important because they demonstrate that the valley moraines are likely to be Late Pleistocene in age -possibly correlating with the Younger Dryas.…”

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Timing of glaciation in the Mediterranean mountains during the last cold stage

Hughes

Woodward

2008

J Quaternary Science

172

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Recent research in the mountains of the Mediterranean has attempted to establish the timing of the maximum extent of glaciers during the last cold stage. Several dating methods have been utilised and new dating frameworks have emerged in key areas. In several places, multiple dating techniques (radiocarbon, optically stimulated luminescence, U-series) applied to glacial and associated sediments suggest that local glacier maxima preceded the global Last Glacial Maximum (LGM, ca. 18 14 C ka BP/ 21 cal. ka BP) by at least several thousand years. Studies in Spain, the Pyrenees, the Maritime Alps and Turkey utilising cosmogenic isotope analyses ( 10 Be and 36 Cl), have yielded glacial geochronologies with maxima that correlate closely with the marine isotope record of ice volume and the global LGM. In some cases, the use of different geochronological techniques has led to conflicting evidence for the timing of the local last glacier maxima in the same area. From a palaeoclimate perspective, glacier-climate reconstructions for the local last glacier maxima in the mountains of central Italy, northern Greece and western Turkey indicate that climate was wet and cold. In Italy and Greece the local glacier maxima preceded the driest part of the last cold stage -as indicated by palaeoecological records -by several thousand years. For western Turkey, however, recent cosmogenic exposure ages combined with glacier modelling suggest a local last glacier maximum characterised by cold and wet conditions coinciding with the global LGM. The available evidence indicates that a dichotomy is emerging, not only in our understanding of the timing of glaciation across the Mediterranean, but also in the palaeoclimatic interpretations derived from glacial and palaeoecological records.

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Timing of glaciation in the Mediterranean mountains during the last cold stage

Hughes

Woodward

2008

J Quaternary Science

172

127

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“…The present of a fine matrix in the morainic material and the clear difference between the less blocky depressions and the blocky outer boundaries of the sites also exclude possible existence of a rock glacier. Present analogues of AFGs are found elsewhere in marginal glacial environments (e.g., Hughes, 2007;Carturan et al, 2013a). For example, the lowermost glacier in Italy is fed by avalanches from high rock walls, which also reduce ablation of the glacier by topographic shading and supplying debris.…”

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Glacial and periglacial geomorphology and its paleoclimatological significance in three North Ethiopian Mountains, including a detailed geomorphological map

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“…At the end of September, ice was revealed on almost a half of the glacier's surface. After the extremely warm autumn, the new accu- -2003- , 2003- -2005- , 2005- -2006- in 2006- -2007.…”

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“…Sli ka 19: Skup na vi{i na sne` ne ode je na Kre da ri ci v le de ni{ kih letih 2007-2008, 2008-2009, 2009-2011in 2011-2012(Agencija … 2013.…”

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The Triglav Glacier between the years 1999 and 2012

Gabrovec¹,

Ortar²,

Pavšek³

et al. 2013

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The Triglav glacier is situated in the Julian Alps in the northwest of Slovenia. Presented are the results of investigations and measurements of the Triglav glacier done between the years 1999 and 2012. During this period its depth was measured by means of georadar for the first time. Its area was measured on a yearly basis by means of various land surveying methods. The dynamics of the glacier shrinkage is explained by using the weather data of each respective year. Due to the glacier's concave form, accumulated winter snow did not melt until the late summer in the past few years, particularly in the central and lower sections of the glacier. If such weather conditions continue, and the amount of winter precipitation further increases, the remainder of the Triglav glacier, though small in size, will continue to exist for a few years.

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Recent behaviour of the Debeli Namet glacier, Durmitor, Montenegro

Cited by 67 publications

References 33 publications

Timing of glaciation in the Mediterranean mountains during the last cold stage

Timing of glaciation in the Mediterranean mountains during the last cold stage

Glacial and periglacial geomorphology and its paleoclimatological significance in three North Ethiopian Mountains, including a detailed geomorphological map

The Triglav Glacier between the years 1999 and 2012

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