Martin J. Siegert

Ice Sheets and Late Quaternary Environmental Change

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Dieser Band diskutiert aus moderner Sicht die zeitabhängige Entwicklung der letzten Gletscher - Hinterlassenschaften der jüngsten Eiszeit. Wichtige Schwerpunkte bilden die Bewegung und die Fließeigenschaften der Eisschichten, die Verformung wassergesättigter Sedimente unter dem Eis, neue geologische Erkenntnisse hinsichtlich des Ausmaßes der letzten Vereisung sowie eine gründliche Einführung in einschlägige numerische Modelle. Since 1981, a great deal has been learned about the world s Quaternary Ice Sheets. This book summarizes current understanding about the evolution of the last ice sheets and their response to and influence on environmental change.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. April 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 189mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 490g
• ISBN-13: 9780471985709
• ISBN-10: 0471985708
• Artikelnr.: 09638207

Autorenporträt

Martin J. Siegert FRSE is a British glaciologist, a professor at Imperial College London, and co-director of the Grantham Institute - Climate Change and Environment.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface. Acknowledgements. Causes of Ice Ages. Indicators of Ice Volume and
Climate Change. The Flow of Ice and Ice Sheet Modelling. Late Quaternary
Geology I - Terrestrial: Glacial Morphology and Sedimentology. Late
Quaternary Geology II - Raised Shorelines and Continental Shelf. Late
Quaternary Geology III - Continental Shelf-Break Sediments and Deep Sea
Environments and Iceberg Debris. Late Quaternary Palaeoclimate. Late
Quaternary Palaeoceanography. Ice Sheet Reconstructions I - The Antarctic
Ice Sheet. Ice Sheet Reconstructions II - The Greenland Ice Sheet. Ice
Sheet Reconstructions III - The British Isles Ice Sheet, Scandinavian Ice
Sheet, Eurasian High Arctic Ice Sheets (Barents Ice Sheet). Ice Sheet
Reconstructions IV - North America, Laurentide Ice Sheet, Cordilleran Ice
Sheet, Innuitian Ice Sheet. Ice Sheet Reconstructions V - Remaining LGM Ice
Cover, Iceland, South America: Patagonia and the Andes, South Island (New
Zealand) and Tasmania, Mainland Europe, Tibet. References. Index.

Rezensionen

"...The book should become essential reading in any Quaternary, glacial geology and glaciology course." Geological Magazine