Chapter
Chapter 20 Ice Caves in Iran
Abstract
Physically, Iran is best known for its warm-to-hot, semiarid to arid climatic conditions. In the north (Alborz Mountains) and west (Zagros Mountains) it has mountain ranges rising to 3500–4500ma.s.l., however, which supported major alpine glaciers during the Quaternary Ice Ages and maintain a few much smaller ones today. Scientific investigation of caves in the mountains is in its early stages. Two examples with perennial ice have received …
Authors
Soleymani M; Ford D; Nakhaei M; Nadimi A
Book title
Ice Caves
Pagination
pp. 425-436
Publisher
Elsevier
Publication Date
2018
DOI
10.1016/b978-0-12-811739-2.00020-6