Little Ice Ages: Ancient and Modern, Volume 1Some were feisty and fiery. Others were cool and dangerous. All were incredibly courageous. Outrageous Women of The Middle Ages took on the challenge of their world—and didn't worry about ruffling a few feathers Among the outrageous women you'll meet are:
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Contents
ICELANDIC GLACIERS AND SEA ICE | 13 |
SCANDINAVIA | 61 |
THE MONT BLANC MASSIF | 103 |
THE ÖTZTAL EASTERN ALPS | 125 |
1a The advancing Vernagtferner drawn by a Capuchin friar Georg Respichler portraying | 130 |
SWITZERLAND | 153 |
2a The Rhône Glacier in 1777 by AlexandreCharles Besson | 163 |
THE PYRENEES MARITIME ALPS AND APENNINES | 186 |
from observation rock | 272 |
ARCTIC ISLANDS | 294 |
TROPICAL LATIN AMERICA EAST AFRICA AND NEW GUINEA | 313 |
1a The Kibo glaciers as seen from about 4330 m in the 1880s | 326 |
THE SOUTHERN ANDES | 330 |
Lago Argentino 10 March 1973 | 341 |
the watershed | 350 |
ANTARCTICA AND THE SUBANTARCTIC ISLANDS | 365 |
Common terms and phrases
ablation accumulation air photographs Alps altitude Aniya Arctic average cent ciers cirque climatic cold cool Cordillera Blanca decades Drangajökull early east eastern eighteenth century El Niño evidence extended farm Figure floods fluctuations forefields frontal Gaurier Gellatly glacial glacier advances glacier fronts Greenland Grindelwald Haeberli Holocene Ice Age advances ice cover icecap Icefield Iceland increased indicate Island Jostedalsbreen Juneau Icefield Karakoram kilometres km² lake late lateral moraine lichen lichenometric lichenometry Little Ice Age Luckman Maladeta mass balance massif maximum mean annual Medieval Warm Period metres mountains névé Nigardsbreen nineteenth century northern observations Ötztal outlet glaciers period Plate position precipitation radiocarbon dates range reached recession records region retreat Rhône Glacier river Röthlisberger sea ice snow snowline Source southern summer temperatures surface surging survey terminal Thórarinsson tion tongue tree-ring trees twentieth century valley variations Vatnajökull Vernagt Vernagtferner warm western winter