Roger Leb Hooke

Principles of Glacier Mechanics

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The principles of glacier physics are developed from basic laws in this up-to-date third edition for advanced students and researchers.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: European Community
• 3rd Revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 220
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Januar 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 249mm x 191mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 1270g
• ISBN-13: 9781108427340
• ISBN-10: 1108427340
• Artikelnr.: 56787842

Autorenporträt

Roger LeB. Hooke is a Research Professor in the School of Earth and Climate Sciences and the Climate Change Institute at the University of Maine, Orono. He has been involved in glaciological research for over thirty years, focusing on processes relevant to the origin of glacial landforms. In addition to the first and second editions of Principles of Glacier Mechanics (1st edition, 1997, 2nd edition, 2005), he has published over 100 research papers in journals such as the Geological Society of America Bulletin, Geology, the Journal of Glaciology, Quaternary Research, and the Journal of Geology.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Why study glaciers?
2. Some basic concepts
3. Mass balance
4. Flow and fracture of a crystalline material
5. The velocity field in a glacier
6. Temperature distribution in polar ice sheets
7. The coupling between a glacier and its bed
8. Water flow in and under glaciers: geomorphic implications
9. Stress and deformation
10. Stress and velocity distribution in an idealized glacier
11. Numerical modeling
12. Applications of stress and deformation principles to classical problems
13. Ice streams and ice shelves
14. Finite strain and the origin of foliation
15. Response of glaciers to climate change
16. Ice core studies
Problems
References
Index.