Modern and Past Glacial Environments
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Modern and Past Glacial Environments

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Modern and Past Glacial Environments

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In combining and revising the two titles 'Past Glacial Environments' and 'Modern Glacial Environments', Dr Menzies and his contributors provide the most comprehensive and wide-ranging book ever prepared on both topics.

This text is produced with the student mind, providing accessibility to a complex subject and introducing topics that provide the fundamental underpinnings of knowledge on glaciers, ice sheets, their sediments and landscapes. Modern and Past Glacial Environments features a large collection of photographs, line diagrams and tables and includes examples of glacial environments and landscapes which are drawn from a world wide perspective. Together with a web- based set of current and comprehensive references and bibliographic sources, it provides an ideal reference text.

This survey includes coverage of the glaciology, geomorphology and sedimentology of modern glaciers and ice sheets, and the sediments and forms generated within Pleistocene and pre-Pleistocene glacial environments. Quaternary scientists and students will find this work their first point of reference. Likewise students of Physical Geography, Geology, Earth Science, Engineering Geology, Civil Engineering, and Environmental Sciences should find this a useful guide and reference to Glacial Geomorphology and Geology.

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Publisher
Butterworth-Heinemann
Year
2002
ISBN
9780080497327
Topic
Physical Sciences
Subtopic
Geology & Earth Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. Modern and Past Glacial Environments
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents
  5. Preface
  6. Acknowledgements
  7. List of Contributors
  8. List of Symbols
  9. Chapter 1. Glacial environments – modern and past
  10. Chapter 2. Global glacial chronologies and causes of glaciation
  11. Chapter 3. Glaciers and ice sheets
  12. Chapter 4. Ice flow and hydrology
  13. Chapter 5. Processes of glacial erosion
  14. Chapter 6. Processes of glacial transportation
  15. Chapter 7. Processes of terrestrial glacial deposition
  16. Chapter 8. Subglacial environments
  17. Chapter 9. Sediments and landforms of modern proglacial terrestrial environments
  18. Chapter 10. Supraglacial and ice-marginal deposits and landforms
  19. Chapter 11. Glaciolacustrine environments
  20. Chapter 12. Modern glaciomarine environments
  21. Chapter 13. Past glaciomarine environments
  22. Chapter 14. Processes of glaciotectonism
  23. Chapter 15. Glacial stratigraphy
  24. Chapter 16. Problems and perspectives
  25. References
  26. Index