Matthias Kuhle

Matthias Kuhle ( born April 20, 1948) is Professor of Geography at the University of Göttingen.

Academic Career

He studied German literature, geography, and philosophy at the Free University of Berlin and finished his studies in 1972 with the state exam. In 1975 the degree of Dr. rer. nat. at the University of Göttingen with the combination of subjects geography, geology, philosophy, and a monograph on the geomorphology of Southeast Iranian mountains. There followed in 1980 the Habilitation in geography with the monograph: The Dhaulagiri and Annapurna Himalaya - A contribution to the geomorphology of extreme high mountains. In 1983 he was appointed professor of geography at the University of Göttingen and was awarded the 1990 Department of Geography and Hochgebirgsgeomorphologie in Göttingen.

The research areas of Kuhle are the mountains high and Central Asia, the Andes and the Arctic. Since 1973, he undertook numerous scientific expeditions of several months duration.

Kuhles focuses on the Gebirgsgeomorphologie and ecology, in particular the periglacial and glacial geomorphology, climatology, Ice Age Research ( paleoclimatology ) and glaciology and professionally at some distance - the philosophy of science.

His work focuses on the reconstruction of the glacial glacier cover in High and Central Asia. The result of more than six years together terrain analyzes that have been carried out in many research areas, is the evidence of a glacial Inlandeisbedeckung Tibet and its bordering mountains. This caused the snow line by a plattentektonisch related uplift of Central Asia until about. For a more extensive ice age origination theory has Kuhle from these empirical findings as well as its global radiation and Albedomessungen located on high altitude debris and ice derived. It is based on that about 2.4 million square kilometers of subtropical glacier cover, which has changed during the ice age in an equally effective cooling surface today's globally very effective heating surface of High Asia.

Publications (selection )

Kuhle has published over 80 books and articles in scientific journals.

  • Kuhle, M. ( 1985): Mountain landscapes: rock formations, debris and ice. Göttingen. ISBN 3884528149
  • (1991 ): glacial geomorphology. Darmstadt University Press. 1-213. ISBN 3534068920
  • Kuhle, M., Kuhle, S. ( 2003): Kant's doctrine of the a priori in its relation to Darwin's theory of evolution. Kant-Studien. Philosophical magazine of the Kant Society 94 (2, Eds: Funke, G.; tree, M.; Dörlinger )
  • (2009): Information - calculus and the logic problem in Kant, Chomsky and Fodor. Kant-Studien. Philosophical magazine of the Kant Society 100 (2, Eds: Funke, G.; tree, M.; Doerflinger, B.; Seebohm, T. ), 241-261. (Berlin, New York)
  • (2010): Connecting Information with Scientific Method: Darwin's Significance for Epistemology. In: Journal for the General Philosophy of Science ( J Gen Philos Sci ) Vol 41, No. 2, 333-357 DOI 10.1007/s10838-010-9140-y

Publications during the Ice Age theory of the origin

  • Kuhle, M. ( 1976): Contributions to Quartärgeomorphologie SE- Iranian mountains. The Quaternary glaciation of the cow -i - Jupar. Göttingen Geographical Essays 67, Vol I: 1-209; Vol II: 1-105.
  • (1982 ): What are the high Tibet for a Pleistocene continental glaciation? Meeting Reports and Aver. d Braunschweigischen science. Gesellsch. 6 ( Sonderbd: The Chinese / German Tibet Expedition 1981, Braunschweig Symposium on 14 - April 16, 1982 ), 68-77
  • (1982 ): The Dhaulagiri and Annapurna Himalayas. A contribution to the geomorphology of extreme high mountains. Journal of Geomorphology Supplement 41 (Suppl. Bd ), Vol I (I ): 1-229; Vol II (Fig.): 1-183 and Geomorph. Map 1:85 000
  • (1983 ): A New Expedition in Tibet - a Contribution to Climatology and High Mountain Research. Universitas 25 ( 1), 59-63
  • (1985 ): Glaciation Research in the Himalayas: A New Ice Age Theory. Universitas 27 ( 4), 281-294
  • (1985 ): A subtropical ice as ice age triggers. Southern Tibet and Mt Everest expedition in 1984. Augusta Georgia, news from the University of Göttingen 42, 35-51
  • (1986 ): The glaciation of Tibet and the formation of ice ages. Spectrum of the sciences; Scientific American 9/86, 42-54
  • (1987 ): The Problem of a Pleistocene Inland Glaciation of the Northeastern Qinghai- Xizang Plateau. - Reports on the NE Qinghai - Xizang Part of (Tibet) Plateau by the Sino - German Scientific Expedition 1981 ( Eds: Hövermann, J.; Wenjing, W. ) Science Press, Beijing, 250-315.
  • (1987 ): Subtropical Mountain - and Highland - Glaciation as Ice Age Triggers and the Waning of the Glacial Periods in the Pleistocene. GeoJournal 14 (4), 393-421
  • (1987 ): The Cradle of the Ice Age. Geo 1987 (2 ), 80-94
  • (1988 ): A relief- specific ice age theory. Evidence of a Tibetan glaciation and their energetic consequences. The Earth Sciences 6 ( 5), 142-150.
  • (1988 ): To trigger role of Tibet in the onset of ice ages. Spectrum of the sciences; Scientific American 1/88, 16-20
  • (1988 ): The Pleistocene Glaciation of Tibet and the Onset of Ice Ages -An Auto Cycle Hypothesis. GeoJournal 17 (4, Tibet and High -Asia. Results of the Sino - German Joint Expeditions I), 581-596
  • (1988 ): Geomorphological Findings on the build -up of Pleistocene Glaciation in Southern Tibet, and on the issue of Inland Ice. Results of the Shisha Pangma and Mt Everest Expedition 1984. GeoJournal 17 (4, Tibet and High -Asia, Results of the Sino - German Joint Expeditions I), 457-513
  • (1989 ): The continental glaciation of Tibet as a basis for foot ends in the global radiation geometry, relief- specific ice age theory. Peter 's Geographic Releases 133 ( 4), 265-285
  • (1991 ): Observations Supporting the Pleistocene Inland Glaciation of High Asia. GeoJournal 25 (2/3, Tibet and High Asia II, Results of the Sino - German Joint Expeditions ), 133-233
  • (1994 ): Present and Pleistocene Glaciation on the North - Western Margin of Tibet in between the Karakorum Main Ridge and the Tarim Basin Supporting the Evidence of a Pleistocene Inland Glaciation in Tibet. GeoJournal 33 (2/3, Tibet and High Asia III, Results of the Sino - German and Russian - German Joint Expeditions ), 133-272
  • (1997): New Findings Concerning the Ice Age (Last Glacial Maximum) Glacier Cover of the East - Pamir, of the Nanga Parbat up to the Central Himalaya and of Tibet, as well as the Age of the Tibetan Inland Ice. GeoJournal 42 (2-3, Tibet and High Asia IV Results of Investigations into High Mountain Geomorphology, Paleo - Glaciology and Climatology of the Pleistocene ( Ice Age Research) ), 87-257
  • (1998): Reconstruction of the 2.4 million square kilometers Late Pleistocene Ice Sheet on the Tibetan Plateau and Its Impact on the Global Climate. Quaternary International 45/46, 71-108 ( Erratum: Vol 47/48 :173-182 (1998) included)
  • (1999): Reconstruction of complete Quaternary Tibetan inland at Approximately Glaciation Between The Mt Everest and Cho Oyu massif and the Aksai Chin. - A new glaciogeomorphological southeast- northwest diagonal profile through Tibet and its Consequences for the glacial isostasy and Ice Age cycle. GeoJournal 47 (1-2, Tibet and High Asia V, Results of Investigations into High Mountain Geomorphology, Paleo - Glaciology and Climatology of the Pleistocene ), 3-276
  • (1999): The Uplift of Tibet above the Snowline and its Complete Glaciation as Trigger of the Quaternary Ice Ages - A Hypothesis for the Ice Age Development. - Geological Society of America (GSA ) Publications 31, 141
  • (2001): The Tibetan Ice Sheet; its Impact on the Palaeomonsoon and relation to the Earth 's Oribital Variations. Polar Research 71 ( 1/2), 1-13
  • (2001): The maximum Ice Age ( LGM ) glaciation of the Central -and South Karakorum: an investigation of the hights of its glacier levels and ice thickness as well as lowest prehistoric ice margin positions in the Hindukush, Himalaya and in East -Tibet on the Minya Konka massif -. GeoJournal 54 (1-4 ), 55 ( 1) (Tibet and High Asia VI, Glaciogeomorphology and Prehistoric Glaciation in the Karakorum and Himalaya ), 109-396
  • (2002): The Glaciation of High Asia and its causal relation to the Onset of Ice Ages. The Earth 132, 339-359
  • (2002): A relief -specific model of the ice age on the basis of uplift -controlled glacier areas in Tibet and the CORRESPONDING albedo increase enlarge as well as Their positive climatological feedback by Means of the global radiation geometry. Climate Research 20, 1-7
  • (2003): New geomorphological indicators of a former Tibetan ice sheet in the central and northeastern part of the high plateau. Zeitschrift f geomorphology N.F. Suppl - Vol.130, 75-97
  • (2004): The High Glacial (Last Ice Age and LGM ) ice cover in High and Central Asia. Development in Quaternary Science 2c (Quaternary Glaciation - Extent and Chronology, Part III: South America, Asia, Africa, Australia, Antarctica, Eds: Ehlers, J., Gibbard, PL), 175-199, Elsevier BV, Amsterdam
  • (2004): Past glacier ( Würmian ) ice thickness in the Karakoram and on the Deosai Plateau in the catchment area of the Indus river. E & G Quaternary Science Journal ( Ice Age and the present) 54, 95-123
  • (2005): Glacial geomorphology and ice ages in Tibet and surrounding mountains. The Iceland Arc 14 ( 4), 346-367, Blackwell Publishing Asia Pty Ltd
  • (2005): The maximum Ice Age ( Würmian, Last Ice Age, LGM ) glaciation of the Himalaya -a glaciogeomorphological investigation of glacier trim -lines, ice thicknesses and lowest former ice margin positions in the Mt Everest - Makalu Cho Oyu massifs ( Khumbu Himal and Khumbakarna ) including informations on late- glacial, neoglacial and historical glacier stages, Their snow -line depression and ages. GeoJournal 62 No.3 -4 (Tibet and High Asia VII: Glaciogeomorphology and former glaciation in the Himalaya and Karakorum ), 191-650
  • (2007): Critical Approach to the Methods of Glacier Reconstruction in High Asia and Discussion of the Probability of a Qinghai- Xizang ( Tibetan ) inland ice. Journal of Mountain Science Vol.4 No.2, 91-123.
  • (2007, published 2008 ): The Pleistocene Glaciation ( LGP and pre - LGP, pre - LGM ) of SE -Iranian Mountains exemplified by the cow -i - Jupar, cow -i - Lalezar and cow -i - Hezar massif in the Zagros. Polar Research 77 (2-3), 71-88 ( Erratum / Clarification Figure 15 on: Vol 78 (1-2), 83, 2008 [ published in 2009 ] )
  • (2008): Correspondence to online edition ( doi.10.1016/jj.quascirev.2007.09.015 Elsevier ) of Quaternary Science Reviews ( QSR) article " Quaternary glacier history of the Central Karakoram " by Yeong Bae Seong et al. In: Quaternary Science Reviews, Volume 27, pp. 1655-1656.
  • (2011): Last Glacial Maximum Glaciation ( LGM / LGP ) in High Asia (Tibet and surrounding Mountains ). In: Encyclopedia of Snow, Ice and Glaciers. Eds: VP Singh, P. Singh, UK Haritashya, 697-702, Springer.
  • (2011): Ice Age Development Theory. In: Encyclopedia of Snow, Ice and Glaciers. Eds: VP Singh, P. Singh, UK Haritashya, 576-581, Springer.
  • (2011): Reconstruction of the load glaciations in the whole of Asia. In: Encyclopedia of Snow, Ice and Glaciers. Eds: VP Singh, P. Singh, UK Haritashya, 924-932, Springer.
  • (2011): The High Glacial (Last Ice Age and Last Glacial Maximum) Ice Cover of High and Central Asia, with a Critical Review of Some Recent OSL and TCN dates. Development in Quaternary Science, Vol 15 (d, Quaternary Glaciation - Extent and Chronology, A Closer Look, Eds: Ehlers, J., Gibbard, PL, Hughes, PD), 943-965. ( B. V. Elsevier, Amsterdam).
  • (2011): The High Glacial ( LGP, LGM, MIS 3-2) southern outlet glaciers of the Tibetan inland ice through the Thak Khola as Mustang into Further evidence of the Tibetan ice. Journal of Nepal Geological Society ( JNGS ), Vol 43 ( Special Issue ), 175-200.
  • (2012 ): High- glacial ( LGP, LGM, MIS 3-2 ) ice cover in the middle Marsyandi Nadi and the Damodar Himal down to the junction of the Nar Khola and the Marsyandi Khola ( Annapurna Himalaya of N ). In: Hartmann, M. & Weipert, J. (Eds.). Biodiversity and Natural Heritage of the Himalaya. Vol IV, (biodiversity and natural features in the Himalayas ), Erfurt, pp. 9-46.
  • (2012 ): The Early and Late Glacial High Mountain Glaciation Surrounding Tibet as Topographic - Climatic Cause of High - Energetic Outburst Floods Glacial Lake ( GLOF ) and Their sedimentological Consequences in the Lower Mountain Forelands. In: Horizons in Earth Science Research. Volume 7, Eds. Benjamin Veress & Jozsi Szigethy, 197-227; Nova Science Publishers, Inc. New York, ISBN 978-1-62100-622-0.
  • (2012 ): The former Tibetan Ice Sheet. In: Ice Sheets. Eds: Müller, J.; Koch, L.; Hauppauge, NY, 173-203, Nova Science Publishers, Inc.
  • (2013 ): The uplift of High Asia above the snowline and its glaciation as to albedo -dependent cause of the Quaternary ice ages. Nova Science Publishers Inc., New York, 1-240. Additional e-books in this series with color graphics can be found on Nova's website under the e-book tab.
  • (2014): The Glacial (MIS 3-2) Outlet Glacier of the Marsyandi Nadi icestream -network with its Ngadi Khola tributary Glacier ( Manaslu and Lamjung Himalayas ). - The Reconstructed Lowering of the Marsyandi Nadi Ice Stream Tongue down in to the Southern Himalayan Foreland. Journal of Mountain Science (JMS ), J. Sci Mt. 11 (1): 236-287. DOI: 10.1007/s11629-013-2820-4.
  • (2014): Zone of Optimum Development of Patterned Grounds as a Characteristic of Semi- Arid Areas, to Indicator of permafrost Lines and a Reference to Sub - Glacial permafrost below the Past Arid Cold -Based Tibetan Ice Sheet. In: Permafrost: Distribution, Composition and Impacts on Infrastructure and Ecosystems. Ed. Oleg S. Pokrovsky. Nova Science Publishers Inc., New York, 107-152.
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