Glacial Geology: Ice Sheets and Landforms provides a modern, comprehensive summary of glacial geology. It is presented in a clear and concise format, which is not cluttered with unnecessary detail. During the Late Cenozoic period much of the northern hemisphere was extensively glaciated. This had a profound effect on the nature of the landscape. In order to understand this landscape one must be able to identify and interpret the glacial landforms and sediments from which it is composed. These landforms and sediments tell a unique part of the story of the Cenozoic Ice Age. This book is about these landforms and sediments and provides the reader with the tools with which to interpret them. It shows how glaciers work and how the processes of glacial erosion and deposition which operate within them are recorded in the glacial landscape.
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"The book is written in an accessible manner and well-illustrated; undergraduate students will thus embrace it as a first resource." (Experimental Agriculture, 2010)"Indeed, the revised and updated text, the provision of colour and case study strategy of delivery have ensured that it will be a firm favourite with students and will be one of the first references entered on to my recommended reading lists well into the future." (The Holocene, August 2010)
"The book is written in an accessible manner and well-illustrated; undergraduate students will thus embrace it as a first resource." (Geological Magazine, 2010)
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This book provides a modern comprehensive summary of glacial geology. During the Late Cenozoic period much of the northern hemisphere was extensively glaciated. This had a profound affect on the nature of the landscape. In order to understand this landscape one must be able to identify and interpret the glacial landforms and sediments from which it is composed. In a clear and precise format, this book explains these landforms and sediments and provides the reader with the tools with which to interpret them. It shows how glaciers work and how the processes of glacial erosion and deposition which operate within them are recorded.
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This book is easy to read and is laid out well. I needed it for a glacial climatology class. The book contains a great deal of information on glaciers, but very little on climate and a glacier's response to climate change. However, this does not take away from the information on glacial geology.
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I bought this book for a class this semester. The first minute I opened the book I was intrigued with all the tables, figures and pictures aside from all of the other information that makes this book a great tool in my glacial geology class. I'd advise this book for any geology student who wants to add to their unending libraries of college textbooks.
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Glacial geology is the study of the landforms and sediments created by glaciers, both past and present. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
areal scour, englacial thrusting, basal thermal regime, braided eskers, subglacial deformation, meltwater portal, net balance gradient, ice margin retreats, mixed thermal regime, effective normal pressure, basal ice temperature, deforming layer, brecciated clasts, buried ice melts, selective linear erosion, soft deformable sediment, subglacial landforms, glacial lineations, subglacial bedforms, preglacial landscape, supraglacial channels, glaciofluvial landforms, former ice margin, englacial thrusts, ice sheet erosion Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Journal of Glaciology, Geografiska Annaler, Cenozoic Ice Age, Special Publication, North Wales, Sedimentary Geology, Geological Society of America Bulletin, Glacimarine Environments, Institute of British Geographers, Quaternary Science Reviews, Canadian Journal of Earth Science, Drumlin Symposium, Journal of Geology, Journal of Geophysical Research, Journal of Quaternary Science, North America, Baffin Island, Late Precambrian, Younger Dryas, John Wiley, Scottish Geographical Magazine, Annals of Glaciology, British Columbia, Marine Geology, Port Askaig Formation New!
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Glacial geology is the study of the landforms and sediments created by glaciers, both past and present. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
areal scour, englacial thrusting, basal thermal regime, braided eskers, subglacial deformation, meltwater portal, net balance gradient, ice margin retreats, mixed thermal regime, effective normal pressure, basal ice temperature, deforming layer, brecciated clasts, buried ice melts, selective linear erosion, soft deformable sediment, subglacial landforms, glacial lineations, subglacial bedforms, preglacial landscape, supraglacial channels, glaciofluvial landforms, former ice margin, englacial thrusts, ice sheet erosion Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Journal of Glaciology, Geografiska Annaler, Cenozoic Ice Age, Special Publication, North Wales, Sedimentary Geology, Geological Society of America Bulletin, Glacimarine Environments, Institute of British Geographers, Quaternary Science Reviews, Canadian Journal of Earth Science, Drumlin Symposium, Journal of Geology, Journal of Geophysical Research, Journal of Quaternary Science, North America, Baffin Island, Late Precambrian, Younger Dryas, John Wiley, Scottish Geographical Magazine, Annals of Glaciology, British Columbia, Marine Geology, Port Askaig Formation New!
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- Glacimarine Environments: Processes and Sediments (Geological Society Special Publication) by J. A. Dowdeswell on 10 pages
- Drumlin Symposium by J. Menzies on 10 pages
- Holmes' Principles of Physical Geology by P.McL.D. Duff on 7 pages
- Principles of Physical Geology by Arthur Holmes on 7 pages
- Glacial Gemorphology : Binghampton Symposia in Geomorphology (Binghamton Symposia in Geomorphology) by Donald R. Coates on 7 pages
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- Glaciers by Michael Hambrey in Back Matter
- Principles of Stratigraphy by Michael E. Brookfield in Back Matter
- Beaches and Coasts by Richard Davis Jr. on page 335
- Field Techniques in Glaciology and Glacial Geomorphology by Bryn Hubbard on page 293
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