Fluctuaciones glaciares durante la deglaciación del Pleistoceno Superior en el Pirineo central español

  1. J. M. García-Ruiz
  2. D. Palacios
  3. N. de Andrés
  4. J. I. López-Moreno
  5. Y. Sanjuán
  6. B. Valero-Garcés
Libro:
Avances de la Geomorfología en España 2012-2014
  1. Susanne Schnabel (coord.)
  2. Álvaro Gómez Gutiérrez (coord.)

Editorial: Universidad de Extremadura

ISBN: 978-84-617-1123-9

Año de publicación: 2014

Páginas: 507-510

Congreso: Reunión Nacional de Geomorfología (13. 2014. Cáceres)

Tipo: Aportación congreso

Resumen

Glacial fluctuations during the Late Pleistocene in the Central Pyrenees was studied using 36Cl cosmogenic dating of moraine and rock glacier boulders, and polished bedrocks. This allowed us to establish a sequence of stadial and interstadial events in the headwater of the Gállego River basin and in the Marboré Cirque. Results demonstrate: (i) the rapid glacial retreat after the LGM; (ii) the great sensitivity of small glaciers to climatic variability; (iii) the occurrence of re-advances within a general deglaciation process, during Greenland Stadial-1 (the Oldest and Younger Dryas); (iv) glacial retreat was very rapid during the Bolling/Allerod (Greenland Interstadial). Late Holocene recorded glacial fluctuations in the uppermost parts of the Pyrenees: re-advance at Mid Holocene, a general retreat during the Bronze/Iron Ages, a short expansion during the Dark Ages, a melting period during the Mediaeval climatic Anomaly and a glacial expansion during the Little Ice Age.