We will initiate a glacier-monitoring program in an attempt to quantify the response of existing glaciers to ongoing climate change; determine how Bhutan's glaciers have responded to past climate switches; and reconstruct changes in past temperatures using tree rings, providing us with an independent estimate of climate change to which glacier-based climate records can be compared.
A total of 852 obsidian artifacts were analyzed to reconstruct changes in obsidian procurement between 1800 and 800 cal B.C.
Changes in δ34S values in firn and ice-core samples have been used to reconstruct changes in sulfate sources to central Asia, Greenland, and Antarctica.
Furthermore, micro-morphological features in micro-stratigraphic association may be used to reconstruct changes in environmental controls, such as from a temperate to periglacial conditions.
Various studies have reconstructed changes in the EAWM during the last 20 Ma Chenn et al. 2006; Sun et al. 2008a; Jiang et al. 2008; Sun et al. 2010b, 2006).
Furthermore, micromorphological features in microstratigraphic association may be used to reconstruct changes in environmental controls, such as from a temperate to periglacial conditions.
This paper uses the glacial landscape in western Scotland to reconstruct changes in the British Irish Ice Sheet that accompanied the growth and decay of a marine sector over the Malin Shelf.
Itaki (2016) reviews changes in microfossil assemblages in the Japan Sea during the late Pliocene to early Pleistocene to reconstruct changes in the connectivity to the northwestern Pacific Ocean and the East China Sea, as well as the possible impact of the East Asian winter monsoon on deep-water ventilation.
We use the accumulation rates of magnetic minerals, total organic C and N, terrestrial and aquatic biomarkers, graminoid epidermis, pollen, green algae, diatoms and diatom C in four small lakes, situated between 2350 and 4595 m a.s.l. on the NE flank of Mt. Kenya, East Africa, to reconstruct changes in C cycling over the last 38 ka.
