Abstract
Many Mediterranean mountains were glaciated during the Pleistocene. The largest glaciers formed during the Middle Pleistocene in Iberia, Italy and the Balkans. In Turkey, the preserved glacial record is dominated by landforms and sediments dating to the Late Pleistocene. The last two decades have seen a large increase in research projects dating moraines in the Mediterranean mountains using cosmogenic isotopes. This has revealed much about the precise timing of glacier advances during the last glacial cycle and the palaeoclimates associated with glacier growth and decay. Fluvial sediments and landforms downstream of glacial limits can provide an important record of Pleistocene mountain glaciation.
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