[Medieninformation] Last Interglacial: Warming amplified in mountain environments

Fri, 11 Dec 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Speleothems turned out to be a great stroke of luck: dripstones from two caves in the Swiss Alps provide for the first time a continuous reconstruction of temperatures during the Last Interglacial period. Paul Wilcox from the Department of Geology has now published a study showing that high alpine regions were affected by stronger temperature increases than lower altitudes.