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Christian Schluechter is Professor Emeritus for the Institute of Geological Science at the University of Bern. His research interest includes quaternary geology, glaciers, and ice ages. He previously served as the chair of Quaternary and Environmental Geology at the University of Bern. He has done extensive fieldwork in the Alps and on all the continents, including 8 expeditions to Antarctica.For many years, Christian has been actively engaged in the International Union for Quaternary Research (INQUA) for which he organised the International Congress in 2011 in Bern.

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The Quaternary Ice Age in the Alps, Volume Eighteen presents an overview of the present knowledge on environmental change as seen through the history of the quaternary ice age in the Alps. Its main theme is a description of the stratigraphic record produced by fundamental changes in the environment through multiple cycles of glacier advance and retreat.