Glaciers of Georgia

This book gives the most detailed and comprehensive insights into themorphology, morphometry and dynamics of glaciers in the Georgian Caucasus region up to date. Itexamines the variability of valley glaciers after the Little Ice Age maximum and identifies glacial dynamics during historical periods. The reconstruction of glaciation in the Late Pleistocene and Holocene was conducted based on long lasting detailed glacial-geomorphological observations by the author. It further analysesmoraine structures,river terraces, geodynamics of the relief, and snow and firn linelocations derived fromfield surveysin mostglacier basinsin the southernand northernslopes of theGeorgianCaucasus. A whole set of methodological approaches was applied includingremote sensing andGIS, glacio-geomorphological, cartographical,aerial image processingandpetrographic methods,unveiling accurate information about glaciers difficult to access, e.g. in the Abkhazeti and Tskhinvali regions. The book provides a full database of Georgia's modern glaciation and displays a set of compiled maps of the distribution of the Late Pleistocene glaciation of the Georgian Caucasus.