Modern and Past Glacial Environments :Revised Student Edition

Publication subTitle :Revised Student Edition

Author: Menzies   John;Menzies   John  

Publisher: Elsevier Science‎

Publication year: 2002

E-ISBN: 9780080497327

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780750642262

P-ISBN(Hardback):  9780750642262

Subject: P343.6 glacier

Language: ENG

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Description

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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Chapter

Front Cover

pp.:  1 – 4

Copyright Page

pp.:  5 – 6

Contents

pp.:  6 – 12

Preface

pp.:  12 – 14

Acknowledgements

pp.:  14 – 16

List of Contributors

pp.:  16 – 18

List of Symbols

pp.:  18 – 24

Chapter 2. Global glacial chronologies and causes of glaciation

pp.:  38 – 76

Chapter 3. Glaciers and ice sheets

pp.:  76 – 102

Chapter 4. Ice flow and hydrology

pp.:  102 – 154

Chapter 5. Processes of glacial erosion

pp.:  154 – 170

Chapter 6. Processes of glacial transportation

pp.:  170 – 194

Chapter 7. Processes of terrestrial glacial deposition

pp.:  194 – 206

Chapter 8. Subglacial environments

pp.:  206 – 302

Chapter 9. Sediments and landforms of modern proglacial terrestrial environments

pp.:  302 – 340

Chapter 10. Supraglacial and ice-marginal deposits and landforms

pp.:  340 – 358

Chapter 11. Glaciolacustrine environments

pp.:  358 – 384

Chapter 12. Modern glaciomarine environments

pp.:  384 – 414

Chapter 13. Past glaciomarine environments

pp.:  414 – 440

Chapter 14. Processes of glaciotectonism

pp.:  440 – 468

Chapter 15. Glacial stratigraphy

pp.:  468 – 498

Chapter 16. Problems and perspectives

pp.:  498 – 506

References

pp.:  506 – 552

Index

pp.:  552 – 568

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