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