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MODERN AND PAST GLACIAL ENVIRONMENTS
Modern and Past Glacial Environments
Revised Student Edition
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By
John Menzies, Departments of Geography and Earth Sciences, Brock University, Canada.

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.

Audience
Glacial geomorphology, geology, geography and earth sciences undergraduate and postgraduate students.

Contents
Prefaces of both volumes; New Academic Version Preface; Introduction to Glacial Environments - past and modern; Glaciation & its causes; Glaciers and Ice Sheets; Ice Flow & Hydrology; Glacial Erosion & Transportation; Glacial Deposition; Subglacial Environments; Proglacial Environments; Supraglacial and Ice Marginal Environments; Glaciolacustrine Environments; Glaciomarine Environments; Glaciotectonics; Glacial Stratigraphy; Problems & Perspectives; References; Index

Bibliographic details
Paperback, 576 pages, publication date: JAN-2002
ISBN-13: 978-0-7506-4226-2
ISBN-10: 0-7506-4226-2
Imprint: BUTTERWORTH HEINEMANN

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