Modern and past glacial environments / editor, John Menzies.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Menzies, John.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Glaciers.

Glacial epoch.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (567 pages)

Edition:

Rev. student ed.

Other Title:

Modern & past glacial environments

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; Boston : Butterworth-Heinemann, 2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

Front Cover; Modern and Past Glacial Environments; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; List of Contributors; List of Symbols; Chapter 1. Glacial environments - modern and past; 1.1. Introduction; 1.2. Impact of ice masses on global habitats and earth systems; 1.3. Research in modern glacial environments; 1.4. Research in past glacial environments; 1.5. Research issues in glacial environments; Chapter 2. Global glacial chronologies and causes of glaciation; 2.1. Introduction; 2.2. Pre-Cenozoic glaciation; 2.3. Late Cenozoic glaciation and the classic subdivisions

2.4. Oxygen isotope stratigraphy and the marine record of glaciation; 2.5. Long terrestrial records of climate and glacial fluctuations for the Quaternary; 2.6. The Late Pleistocene climatic record revealed by deep ice cores; 2.7. Correlation of Late Cenozoic glaciations in the northern and southern hemispheres; 2.8. The last 25 000 years and synchroneity of northern and southern hemisphere glacial cycles; 2.9. Causes of climatic change for Late Cenozoic glaciation; 2.10. Future climate change and glaciation; Chapter 3. Glaciers and ice sheets; 3.1. Introduction; 3.2. Ice mass types

3.3. Formation of glacier ice; 3.4. Mass balance and glacier sensitivity; 3.5. Ice sheet modelling strategies; 3.6. Ice mass changes and fluxes; 3.7. Structure and thermal characteristics of ice masses; 3.8. Ice structures; 3.9. Concluding remarks; Chapter 4. Ice flow and hydrology; 4.1. Introduction; 4.2. Ice mechanics and the thermo-mechanical problem; 4.3. The flow of ice; 4.4. The flow of ice sheets; 4.5. The flow of valley glaciers; 4.6. The flow of ice shelves; 4.7. Velocities of ice sheets and glaciers; 4.8. Glacier surges; 4.9. Hydrology of glaciers

4.10. The nature of meltwater flow and routing at the ice-bed interface; 4.11. Hydraulic systems and deformable beds; 4.12. Subglacial lakes; 4.13. High-magnitude meltwater discharges; 4.14. Concluding remarks; Chapter 5. Processes of glacial erosion; 5.1. Introduction; 5.2. Abrasion; 5.3. Quarrying; 5.4. Rates of erosion; 5.5. Large-scale processes; 5.6. Summary; Chapter 6. Processes of glacial transportation; 6.1. Introduction; 6.2. Ice properties affecting sediment transport; 6.3. Debris sources; 6.4. Transport pathways through ice masses; 6.5. Modification of sediment during transport

6.6. Glaciological effects of debris in transport; Chapter 7. Processes of terrestrial glacial deposition; 7.1. Introduction; 7.2. Factors contributing to terrestrial glaciogenic deposition; 7.3. Mechanisms of till deposition; 7.4. Mechanisms of glaciofluvial deposition; 7.5. Tills of Eastern England - debates about mechanisms of till deposition - a case example; Chapter 8. Subglacial environments; 8.1. Introduction; 8.2. Definition; 8.3. The subglacial interface - bed types and conditions; 8.4. Spatial variations in subglacial polythermal-rheological bed conditions; 8.5. Subglacial sediments and landforms

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 483-528) and index.

ISBN:

1-281-01320-X

9786611013202

0-08-049732-2

OCLC:

191035098