Ice dynamics of the last ice age in the Alps

In the Alps, the influence of time can be seen in a clear way in the topography. Where in the lowlands the vegetation covers the topography, the steep slopes of the alpine valleys clearly show their history of formation. This also indicates the climatic conditions during their formation. During the ice ages, glaciers shaped many of the landscapes we know today, such as the U-shaped valleys or terminal moraine landscapes. The amount of water bound as ice in the cryosphere has a decisive influence on sea level. In 2018, Julien Seguinot, Susan Ivy-Ochs, Guillaume Jouvet, Matthias Huss, Martin Funk, and Frank Preusser documented the relationship between temperature and ice volume in the Alps over the last 120,000 years in a film in their paper "Ice Dynamics of the Last Ice Age in the Alps." The computational model impressively shows how, as the ice sheets grow and bind the water, the Adriatic Sea retreats.