a State Key Laboratory of Biogeology and Environmental Geology, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan 430074, China b State Key Laboratory of Geological Processes and Mineral Resources, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan 430074, China c Department of Geology, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH 45221-0013, USA d Department of Geology and Geophysics, Yale University, New Haven, CT 0652...

Comparison of numerical model output that predicts spatial flow patterns against field observations is a necessity within several areas of the geosciences. However in many cases these comparisons are qualitative or relative in nature. Automated flow direction analysis (AFDA) is a new method designed to provide a systematic comparison between modeled flow patterns and field observations, with pa...

ABSTRACT This paper examines the astronomical theory of ice ages James Croll (1821–1890), its influence on contemporaries John Tyndall, Charles Lyell, and Darwin, subsequent development climate change science, giving special attention to work Svante Arrhenius, Nils Ekholm, G. S. Callendar (for carbon dioxide theory), Milutin Milanković theory). Croll's insight that orbital elements triggered fe...

[1] Variations in the poleward-directed Atlantic heat transfer was investigated over the past 135 ka with special emphasis on the last and present interglacial climate development (Eemian and Holocene). Both interglacials exhibited very similar climatic oscillations during each preceding glacial terminations (deglacial TI and TII). Like TI, also TII has pronounced cold–warm–cold changes akin to...

I am delighted to announce completion of the second issue of the new journal of “Geopersia”, a product of the new era of replacing the Persian language journals with specific English-language ones. Our purpose is to provide a journal that offers a multi-disciplinary analysis of issues concerning Geology subjects (i.e. sedimentology, stratigraphy, paleontology, Petroleum Geology, Engineering Geo...

In the recent several decades, glacial lakes have been expanding at the terminus of debris-covered glaciers associated with glacier shrinkage in the Himalayas. Accordingly, glacial lake outburst floods (GLOFs) have become serious natural disasters in the Himalayas. Bathymetrical surveys have been carried out at several glacial lakes, and the relationship between the lake area and water volume h...

Glacial chronologies from the Himalayan region indicate various degrees of asynchronous glacial behavior. Part of this has been related to different sensitivities of glaciers situated in contrasting climatic compartments of the orogen, but so far field data in support for this hypothesis is lacking. Here, we present a new 10Be-derived glacial chronology for the upper Tons valley in western Garh...

The objectives of this study are to validate generated Digital Surface Models (DSMs) by PRISM onboard the Advanced Land Observing Satellite (ALOS, nicknamed “Daichi”) in snow and glacier regions to contribute to the evaluation of potential Glacial Lake Outburst Floods (GLOFs) and their mitigation in the Bhutan Himalaya. Glacial lake inventory will also be generated to investigate the expansion ...

The relative timing of late Quaternary glacial advances in mid-latitude (40–55 S) mountain belts of the Southern Hemisphere (SH) has become a critical focus in the debate on global climate teleconnections. On the basis of glacial data from New Zealand (NZ) and southern South America it has been argued that interhemispheric synchrony or asynchrony of Quaternary glacial events is due to Northern ...