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Holocene glacier fluctuations in the Italian Alps - Medclivar

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Niederjoch/Giogo Basso Gl.(Baroni & Orombelli, 1995)Ötzi(~ 5200 cal BP)The mummified corpse of <strong>the</strong>iceman rested directly on bedrock,suggest<strong>in</strong>g that, after death, itbecame buried <strong>in</strong> snow on ice-freeground ~ 5.2 kyr BP and s<strong>in</strong>ce <strong>the</strong>nrema<strong>in</strong>ed cont<strong>in</strong>uously preserved<strong>in</strong> cold ice, frozen to bedrock at <strong>the</strong>upper edge of <strong>the</strong> Giogo Basso Gl.(Eastern<strong>Alps</strong>).At about 5.2 kyr BP, for an abrupt climate change, GiogoBasso <strong>glacier</strong> started to re-form near <strong>the</strong> Tisa Pass <strong>in</strong> itsupper accumulation bas<strong>in</strong>.

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