Glacial Geology (eBook, ePUB)

Ice Sheets and Landforms
Redaktion: Bennett, Matthew M.; Glasser, Neil F.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The new Second Edition of Glacial Geology provides a modern, comprehensive summary of glacial geology and geomorphology. It is has been thoroughly revised and updated from the original First Edition. This book will appeal to all students interested in the landforms and sediments that make up glacial landscapes. The aim of the book is to outline glacial landforms and sediments and to provide the reader with the tools required to interpret glacial landscapes. It describes how glaciers work and how the processes of glacial erosion and deposition which operate within them are recorded in the glacial landscape. The Second Edition is presented in the same clear and concise format as the First Edition, providing detailed explanations that are not cluttered with unnecessary detail. Additions include a new chapter on Glaciations around the Globe, demonstrating the range of glacial environments present on Earth today and a new chapter on Palaeoglaciology, explaining how glacial landforms and sediments are used in ice-sheet reconstructions. Like the original book, text boxes are used throughout to explain key concepts and to introduce students to case study material from the glacial literature. Newly updated sections on Further Reading are also included at the end of each chapter to point the reader towards key references. The book is illustrated throughout with colour photographs and illustrations.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. September 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781119966692
• Artikelnr.: 37341451

Autorenporträt

MATTHEW R. BENNETT, School of Conservation Sciences, Bournemouth University, UK NEIL F. GLASSER, Institute of Geography and Earth Sciences, Aberystwyth University, UK

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Acknowledgements Illustrations Chapter 1: Introduction 1.1 What is
Glacial Geology and Why is it Important? 1.2 The Aim and Structure of this
Book Chapter 2: Glaciations Around The Globe 2.1 The Antarctic Ice Sheet
2.2 Greenland in the Greenhouse 2.3 Southern Hemisphere Temperate Glaciers:
Patagonia and New Zealand 2.4 Northern Hemisphere Temperate Glaciers:
Alaska and Iceland 2.5 High-Altitude Glaciers: The Himalaya 2.6 Tropical
Glaciers: The Cordillera Blanca, Peru 2.7 Arctic Polythermal Glaciers 2.8
Summary Suggested Reading Chapter 3: Mass Balance and the Mechanisms of Ice
Flow 3.1 Annual Mass Balance 3.2 The Mass Balance Gradient: The Glacial
Driving Mechanism 3.3 Mechanisms of Ice Flow 3.4 The Principles of Basal
Thermal Regime 3.5 Patterns and Rates of Ice Flow 3.6 Glacier Response to
Climate Change 3.7 Summary Suggested Reading Chapter 4: Glacier Hydrology
4.1 Glacier Hydrology 4.2 Sources of Glacial Meltwater 4.3 Storage of Water
in Glaciers 4.4 Methods of Studying Glacier Hydrology 4.5 Glacier
Hydrological Systems 4.6 Subglacial Water Pressure 4.7 Discharge
Fluctuations 4.8 Glacial Meltwater Erosion 4.9 Summary Suggested Reading
Chapter 5: The Processes of Glacial Erosion 5.1 Glacial Abrasion 5.2
Glacial Quarrying 5.3 Estimating Rates of Glacial Erosion 5.4 Patterns of
Glacial Erosion 5.5 Summary Suggested Reading Chapter 6: Landforms of
Glacial Erosion 6.1 Microscale Features of Glacial Erosion 6.2 Mesoscale
Features of Glacial Erosion 6.3 Macroscale Features of Glacial Erosion 6.4
Landscapes of Glacial Erosion 6.5 Summary Suggested Reading Chapter 7:
Glacial Debris Entrainment and Transport 7.1 High-Level Debris Transport
7.2 Debris Entrainment 7.3 Low-Level Debris Transport 7.4 Debris Transfer
Between Low and High Levels 7.5 Debris Transfer 7.6 Summary Suggested
Reading Chapter 8: Glacial Sedimentation on Land 8.1 Direct Glacial
Sedimentation 8.2 Fluvial Sedimentation 8.3 Summary Suggested Reading
Chapter 9: Landforms of Glacial Deposition on Land 9.1 Ice-Marginal
Moraines 9.2 Subglacial Landforms Formed by Ice or Sediment Flow 9.3
Glaciofluvial Ice-Marginal Landforms 9.4 Glaciofluvial Subglacial Landforms
9.5 Summary Suggested Reading Chapter 10: Glacial Sedimentation in Water
10.1 Sedimentation in Lacustrine Environments 10.2 Sedimentation in Marine
Environments 10.3 Distinguishing Glaciolacustrine and Glaciomarine Diamicts
from Glacial Tills 10.4 Summary Suggested Reading Chapter 11: Landforms of
Glacial Deposition in Water 11.1 Glaciolacustrine Landforms 11.2
Glaciomarine Landforms 11.3 Summary Suggested Reading Chapter 12:
Palaeoglaciology 12.1 The Methods Used in Palaeoglaciology 12.2 The Key
Landforms Used in Palaeoglaciology 12.3 Former Subglacial Thermal Regimes
12.4 Palaeoglaciological Reconstructions 12.5 Summary Suggested Reading
Index