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Third Edition
By
W. S. B. Paterson, Formerly of the Polar Continental Shelf Project of the Canadian Government, Canada
Description
Explains the physical principles underlying the behaviour of glaciers and ice sheets and concludes with a chapter on the information about
past climate and atmospheric composition obtainable from ice cores. The past 40 years have seen major advances in most aspects of the
subject; the book concentrates on these. It is an updated and expanded version of the second edition, and is now available in the long-awaited
paperback format. Much of the book deals with developments since the second edition was published.
Dr Paterson's introduction to glacier
studies was with the British North Greenland Expedition in 1953-4. He emigrated to Canada in 1957 and between 1959 and 1980 studied glaciers
in the Canadian Arctic and the Rocky Mountains, mainly under the auspices of the Canadian Government's Polar Continental Shelf Project.
Since 1980 he has done consulting work and has also been a visiting scientist with the Geophysics Department at the University of Copenhagen
(three times) and with the Australian Antarctic Division. He has also given a comprehensive lecture course at the Institute of Glaciology
and Geocryology in Lanzhou, China. He is now retired (more or less) and lives in British Columbia.
Audience
Graduate students starting research, also established workers in glacier studies and related subjects such as geomorphology, climatology and paleoclimatology.
Contents
Introduction; The Transformation of Snow to Ice; Mass Balance; Heat Budget and Climatology; Structure and Deformation of Ice; Hydraulics
of Glaciers; Glacier Sliding; Deformation of Subglacial Till; Structures and Fabrics of Glaciers and Ice Sheets; Flow of Ice Shelves
and Ice Streams; Non-Steady Flow of Glaciers and Ice Sheets; Surging and Tidewater Glaciers; Ice Core Studies; Appendices; References;
Subject Index.
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Paperback, 496 pages, publication date: AUG-1999
ISBN-13: 978-0-7506-4742-7
ISBN-10: 0-7506-4742-6
Imprint: BUTTERWORTH HEINEMANN
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