Glacier Science and Environmental Change
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Author(s): P. Knight (Ed.)
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing
ISBN: 1405100184
Format: hardback
527pp
Price: £125.00
Review Date: 29 September 2006
Review: This book provides readers with a picture of the current scientific understanding of the key issues relating to glaciers and environmental change. The contributors to the 90 papers each give their own personal perspectives on important topics. In controversial areas, such as the creation of subglacial landscapes or the mechanisms of ice deformations within ice sheets, contrasting views are given by different authors, indicating the current frontiers of science. The book is divided into five sections: Glaciers and their coupling with hydraulic and sedimentary processes; Glaciers, oceans, atmosphere and climate; Changing glaciers and their role in Earth surface evolution; Glacier composition, mechanisms and dynamics; and The practice of glaciology.