Iberia, Land of Glaciers. How The Mountains Were Shaped By Glaciers

Table of Contents

1. The impact of the Quaternary Ice Ages on the landscape
2. Quaternary ice ages in the Iberian Peninsula
3. The Glacial Landscapes of the Iberian Peninsula within the Mediterranean region
4. The Iberian Peninsula: From paleoglaciers to the current glaciers
5. Iberia: Land of the ancient glaciers

Authors

Marc Oliva Universitat de Barcelona, Spain. Marc Oliva holds a PhD in Geography from the Universitat de Barcelona, where he works now as research scientist and leads a research group on Antarctic, Arctic and Alpine Environments. He has carried out research and teaching activities in universities of Portugal, Canada, Switzerland, Spain and Russia. He has participated in eight expeditions to Antarctica and four to the High Arctic. Apart from the Polar Regions, he has also conducted research in other mountain regions (Rocky Mountains, Alps, N Iceland, Pamir, Tien Shan, Pyrenees, and Cantabrian Mountains), which has provided him a wide comprehension of Earth surface processes in cold-climate environments. His research interests include the study of geomorphological processes and past environments and climate in the Polar Regions and high mountains using a wide range of natural records (glacial, periglacial, and lacustrine). David Palacios Professor, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain. David Palacios is Full Professor of Physical Geography at the Complutense University of Madrid, Spain. He has been the coordinator for Spanish National Projects since 1998 to the present, and Spanish coordinator of two European Projects. He has served as founder and director of the High Mountain Physical Geography excellence research group for 12 years, and has authored over 200 international research papers, 100 chapters, and has edited five books. Jos� M. Fern�ndez-Fern�ndez Centro de Estudos Geogr�ficos (CEG) / Instituto de Geografia e Ordenamento do Territ�rio (IGOT), Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal. Jos� M. Fern�ndez-Fern�ndez holds a PhD in Geography from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain), where he is Assistant Professor. His research has focused on the relationships between glaciers and climate at different timescales since the last glacial cycle and the use of nunataks as key proxies of palaeoenvironmental evolution. He has conducted research in several mountains of Iceland (Tr�llaskagi Peninsula), the Iberian Peninsula, and Antarctica (South Shetland Islands).