The Physics of Glaciers
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1994
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3rd Revised edition
Butterworth-Heinemann Ltd (Verlag)
978-0-08-037944-9 (ISBN)
Butterworth-Heinemann Ltd (Verlag)
978-0-08-037944-9 (ISBN)
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An explanation of the physical principles underlying the behaviour of glaciers and ice sheets. The book concludes with a chapter on the information about past climate and atmospheric composition obtainable from ice cores. It concentrates on major advances in the subject in the last 40 years.
This book explains the physical principles underlying the behaviour of glaciers and ice sheets and concludes with a chapter on the information about past climate and atmospheric composition obtainable from ice cores. The past 40 years have seen major advances in most aspects of the subject; the book concentrates on these. It is an updated and expanded version of the second edition, much of it dealing with developments since that edition went to press. Dr Paterson's introduction to glacier studies was with the British North Greenland Expedition in 1953-4. He emigrated to Canada in 1957 and between 1959 and 1980 studied glaciers in the Canadian Arctic and the Rocky Mountains, mainly under the auspices of the Canadian Government's Polar Continental Shelf Project. Since 1980 he has done consulting work and has also been a visiting scientist with the Geophysics Department at the University of Copenhagen (three times) and with the Australian Antarctic Division. He has also given a comprehensive lecture course at the Institute of Glaciology and Geocryology in Lanzhou, China.
This book explains the physical principles underlying the behaviour of glaciers and ice sheets and concludes with a chapter on the information about past climate and atmospheric composition obtainable from ice cores. The past 40 years have seen major advances in most aspects of the subject; the book concentrates on these. It is an updated and expanded version of the second edition, much of it dealing with developments since that edition went to press. Dr Paterson's introduction to glacier studies was with the British North Greenland Expedition in 1953-4. He emigrated to Canada in 1957 and between 1959 and 1980 studied glaciers in the Canadian Arctic and the Rocky Mountains, mainly under the auspices of the Canadian Government's Polar Continental Shelf Project. Since 1980 he has done consulting work and has also been a visiting scientist with the Geophysics Department at the University of Copenhagen (three times) and with the Australian Antarctic Division. He has also given a comprehensive lecture course at the Institute of Glaciology and Geocryology in Lanzhou, China.
The transformation of snow to ice; mass balance; heat budget and climatology; structure and deformation of ice; hydraulics and glaciers; glacier sliding; deformation of subglacial till; structures and fabrics in glaciers and ice sheets; distribution of temperature in glaciers and ice sheets; steady flow of glaciers and ice sheets; flow of ice shelves and ice streams; non-steady flow of glaciers and ice sheets; surging and tidewater glaciers; ice core studies.
| Zusatzinfo | illustrations |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | Oxford |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Gewicht | 1006 g |
| Themenwelt | Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geologie |
| ISBN-10 | 0-08-037944-3 / 0080379443 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-08-037944-9 / 9780080379449 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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