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Title

• The physics of glaciers / W.S.B. Paterson.

Author

Paterson, W. S. B.

Publication

Oxford ; Woburn, MA : Butterworth/Heinemann, 2001.

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Description

ix, 481 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.

Summary

"The Physics of Glaciers 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, with some additional corrections for this 1998 reprint. 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. Book jacket."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject

Glaciers

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 421-472) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction -- The transformatin of snow to ice -- Mass balance -- Heat budget and climatology -- Structure and deformation of ice -- Hydraulics of glaciers -- Glacier sliding -- Deformation of subglacial till -- Structure and fabrics in glaciers and ice sheets -- Steady flow of glaciers and ice sheets -- Flow of ice shelves and ice streams -- Non-steady flow of glaciers and ice sheets -- Surging and tidewter glaciers -- Ice core studies.

ISBN

0750647426 (pbk.)

OCLC

52858722

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library