Research Catalog

Title

The world of ice / James L. Dyson.

Author

Dyson, James L. (James Lindsay), 1912-1967

Publication

New York : Knopf, 1962.

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Details

Description

xviii, 292, xiii pages, 62 pages of plates : illustrations, maps; 25 cm

Summary

General description of ice and glaciers.

Subject

• Ice
• Glaciers
• glaciers (bodies of water)
• ice (water by form)
• Glaciers
• Ice

Genre/Form

• Book design.
• Book covers.
• Dust jackets (Bindings) – 1962.
• Dust jackets – Specimens – United States – 1962.
• Publishers' cloth bindings (Binding) – 1962.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Snowlines and glaciers. The blanket of snow ; Lands of permanent snow ; The snowline has its ups and downs ; Lands of snow inviolate -- The birth of a glacier. Glaciers are classified -- Ice streams on the move. How does a glacier move? -- Ice sculptures the face of the land -- Mountain glaciers are nearly everywhere. There are many others -- Glaciers and mountaineers. Mountaineers take to the air -- Where the water comes from. Too much water ; Floods of another day -- The ice age in full swing. The big ice sheets ; Crevasses ; How old is the ice? ; The ice is thick -- Ice breaks the back of the continent. What lies beneath the ice? ; What about settlements? -- Ice of the sea. The polar pack ; The Antarctic -- Ghost ships of the Arctic. Occupancy ; What route do they follow? ; What made them? -- Life on ice -- Ice beneath the ground -- Ice and our changing climate -- Nature keeps the record. Before the neothermal ; Those oxygen isotopes again -- The ice sheet makes a new world. Streamlined drift ; Lakes, lakes, everywhere ; The lands emerge ; Seas come and go -- Where will the world of ice go from here?.

LCCN

62008682

OCLC

• ocm00491286
• 491286
• SCSB-303564

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library