caa a22 4500 469032294 CHVBK 20180323132746.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170328e19921201xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/BF02664561 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/BF02664561 Last glaciation and maximum glaciation in the Qinghai-Xizang (Tibet) Plateau: A controversy to M. Kuhle's ice sheet hypothesis [Elektronische Daten] [Yafeng Shi, Benxing Zheng, Shijie Li] Since the late 1950's, many Chinese scientists have explored the remains of the Quaternary glaciation in the Qinghai-Xizang (Tibet) Plateau and its surrounding mountains. In the main, 3-4 glaciations have been recognized. The largest one occurred in the Late Middle Pleistocene with piedmont glaciers, ice caps and trellis valley glaciers in many high peak regions. But here is no evidence of a unified ice sheet covering the whole plateau as described by M. Kuhle. Due to the further uplifting of the Himalayas and Qinghai-Xizang Plateau the climate became progressively driver, diminishing the extension of glaciers during the Late Pleistocene. The elevation of the snow line during the Last Glaciation was about 4,000 m on the south, east and northeast edges of the plateau and ascended to 5500 m on the hinder northwest of the plateau. The thermal effect of the big plateau massif, the sharp increase of aridity from the southeast rim to the northwest inland area and the abrupt decrease of precipitation during the Ice Age largely account for the distribution of the Quaternary glaciers in the Qinghai-Xizang Plateau. The neglect of Chinese literature may be one of the causes accounting for M. Kuhle's misinterpretation on the environment of the Quaternary glaciations in the Qinghai-Xizang Plateau. Science Press, 1992 Quaternary glaciation nationallicence dispersed mountain glaciers nationallicence the Qinghai-Xizang Plateau nationallicence Shi Yafeng Lanzhou Institute of Glaciology and Geocryology, CAS, 730000, Lanzhou, PRC aut Zheng Benxing Lanzhou Institute of Glaciology and Geocryology, CAS, 730000, Lanzhou, PRC aut Li Shijie Lanzhou Institute of Glaciology and Geocryology, CAS, 730000, Lanzhou, PRC aut Chinese Geographical Science Science Press 2/4(1992-12-01), 293-311 1002-0063 2:4<293 1992 2 11769 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02664561 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02664561 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Shi Yafeng Lanzhou Institute of Glaciology and Geocryology, CAS, 730000, Lanzhou, PRC aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Zheng Benxing Lanzhou Institute of Glaciology and Geocryology, CAS, 730000, Lanzhou, PRC aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Li Shijie Lanzhou Institute of Glaciology and Geocryology, CAS, 730000, Lanzhou, PRC aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Chinese Geographical Science Science Press 2/4(1992-12-01), 293-311 1002-0063 2:4<293 1992 2 11769 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer