Last Interglacial: warming amplified in mountain environments
E-Mail IMAGE: A look at the last interglacial shows: Temperatures in the high alpine region were up to 4 degrees higher than today. These are significantly higher values than at lower altitudes.... view more Credit: Martin Trüssel The Last interglacial period was the last warm period before our present Holocene age and dates back some 129,000 to 116,000 years ago. It is more and more in the focus of research interest, as this period could be used as a possible test bed for warmer c...
Yuri Dublyansky Paul Wilcox Institute Of Geology University Of Innsbruck Nature Research Open Access Communications Earth
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