Geography Reference
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Increase in glacier size
0
'Little Ice Age'
Mediaeval
Warm
Period
1000
2000
High frequency
of late-Holocene
'neoglacial events'
3000
4000
5000
Conventional
onset of
'neoglaciation'
6000
'Climatic Optimum'
7000
8000
'Finse Event'
9000
'Erdalen Event'
10,000
Deglaciation
11,000
Glaciers smaller
than at present
Glaciers larger
than at present
Neoglacial event
8. Holocene glacier and climatic variations in Jotunheimen, Norway,
reconstructed from the sedimentary record in lakes and mires
