Ashtapad Maha Tirth 02

SR No.: 009860
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Rajnikant Shah, Others
Publisher: USA Jain Center America NY
Publication Year: 2012
Total Pages: 532
Language: Hindi, Sanskrit, Gujarati
Classification: Book_Devnagari
File Size: 26 MB

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Chapter 06
Climate and Study of Glaciers
brief reversal during the LIA, when the marginal increase in glacier covering the exposed glacially polished bedrock and deposition of push moraines occurred. Climatic scenarios and circumstantial evidences suggest that the current recession would have occurred after LIA around the beginning of the 19th century. In the near future once the stratigraphic and geomorphic evidences presented in the present study are chronologically constrained, we would be in a better position to ascertain the climatic pattern that prevailed during the Kailash glaciation. In addition, chronology of past glaciation would possibly help in understanding the potential evolution of the glaciers around Mount Kailash in response to the anticipated global warming scenario. References 1. Rupper, S., Roe, G. and Gillespie, A., Spatial patterns of Holocene glacier advance and retreat in Central Asia. Quaternary
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