Glaciers & GlaciationGlaciers and Glaciation is the classic textbook for all students of glaciation. Stimulating and accessible, it has established a reputation as a comprehensive and essential resource. In this new edition, the text, references, and illustrations have been thoroughly updated to give today's reader an up-to-the minute overview of the nature, origin, and behavior of glaciers and the geological and geomorphological evidence for their past history on earth. The first part of the book investigates the processes involved in forming glacier ice, the nature of glacier/climate relationships, the mechanisms of glacier flow, and the interactions of glaciers with other natural systems such as rivers, lakes, and oceans. In the second part, the emphasis moves to landforms and sediment, the interpretation of the earth's glacial legacy, and the reconstruction of glacial depositional environments and palaeoglaciology. |
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 3 |
PROCESSES OF GLACIER MOTION | 107 |
Layering foliation and related | 138 |
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ablation accumulation Antarctica areas basal ice basin bedforms bedrock Benn Boulton calving cavity channels cirque clasts climate crevasses cycles debris flows deformation deglaciation delta deposits Diamict diamicton discharge downglacier drumlins englacial environments erosion erosional esker Evans Eyles facies fans Figure fjord flutings fluvial fracture glacial glacier bed glacier ice glacier margins glacier surface glacifluvial glacimarine Glaciology glacitectonic gradients gravel Greenland Greenland Ice Sheet ice flow ice margin ice sheet ice shelf ice stream ice-contact iceberg Iceland increase lake landforms landsystems Laurentide Ice Sheet layer mass balance melt-out melting meltwater moraines occur outwash paraglacial particles patterns processes proglacial rates reproduced with permission result retreat ridges roches moutonnées rock sand sandur sea-level sediment sequences shear stress sliding slope snow structures subaqueous subglacial supraglacial surge surging glaciers Svalbard temperature thickness thrust tion troughs tunnel valleys valley velocity water pressure Whillans Ice Stream zone