The Physics of Glaciers, Third Edition - Hardcover

Paterson, W. S. B.

9780080379456: The Physics of Glaciers, Third Edition

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0080379451 ISBN 13: 9780080379456

Publisher: Pergamon, 1995

This updated and expanded version of the second edition explains the physical principles underlying the behaviour of glaciers and ice sheets. The text has been revised in order to keep pace with the extensive developments which have occurred since 1981. A new chapter, of major interest, concentrates on the deformation of subglacial till. The book concludes with a chapter on information regarding past climate and atmospheric composition obtainable from ice cores.

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From the Publisher:

Dr Paterson's introduction to glacier studies was with the British North Greenland Expedition in 1053-4. 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 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 and lives in British Columbia.

About the Author:

Part of the British North Greenland Expedition 1953-4. Formerly a visiting scientist at the Geophysics Department at the University of Copenhagen, and the Australian Antarctic Division.

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