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Hardcover. This major new text provides a synthesis of the nature, origin and behaviour of glacier systems and the geological and geomorphological evidence for their former existence.
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Douglas I. Benn is currently Professor of Glaciology at the University Centre in Svalbard, and has a part-time position at the University of St Andrews. His PhD was on the Younger Dryas glaciation of the Isle of Skye, Scotland (St Andrews, 1990), and he has subsequently conducted research into glacial geomorphology and sedimentology in Scandinavia, South and North America, and the Himalaya. More recently, his research has focused mainly on glaciological processes, including the mass balance of debris-covered glaciers, calving, glacier surges, and direct exploration of englacial and subglacial drainage systems
David J.A. Evans is a glacial geomorphologist and Quaternary scientist who gained a Geography BA at the University of Wales (Lampeter) in 1982, an MSc at Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada in 1984 and a PhD at the University of Alberta, Canada in 1988. He has undertaken research on glaciers and glaciation in Arctic Canada, Iceland, Norway, the Canadian prairies, Svalbard, South Georgia, New Zealand, Labrador, the Himalayas, Ireland and Britain. After 14 years at the University of Glasgow he exchanged his drumlinized surroundings at Loch Lomond for the meltwater channels of upper Teesdale in the Pennines of northern England and is presently a Reader in Geography at the University of Durham.
A masterpiece... It demonstrates what can be achieved when widespread and ambitious fieldwork is combined with extensive library work, excellent understanding, and what must have been inordinate dedication.
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Professor G.K.C. Clarke for the American Geophysical Union (about the first edition)
Dr. Alan Kehew, Department of Geosciences, Western Michigan University (on the first edition)
Professor J.D. Ives for Choices (about the first edition)
A modern synthesis that will be appreciated by professional scientists and graduate students both inside and outside the discipline. This book is the best of its kind, an impressive contribution to science and to education.
Professor G.K.C. Clarke for the American Geophysical Union (about the first edition)
"This is by far the best book on the market for a glacial geology course."
Dr. Alan Kehew, Department of Geosciences, Western Michigan University (on the first edition)
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- PublisherJohn Wiley & Sons Inc
- Publication date1998
- ISBN 10 0470236507
- ISBN 13 9780470236505
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages734
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