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Book Synopsis
Students in glacial geomorphology and glaciology, engaging in fieldwork, have long done research without a definitive text guiding them on accepted techniques. Field Techniques in Glaciology and Glacial Geomorphology is the first comprehensive textbook on all the field techniques a researcher needs.

Table of Contents
Preface.

Acknowledgements.

1. Introduction.

2. Planning and Conducting glaciological fieldwork.

3. Glacier ice: Character, Sampling and analysis.

4. Glacier meltwater: Character, sampling and analysis.

5. Hot-water borehole drilling and borehole instrumentation.

6. Ice radar.

7. Glacier mass balance and motion.

8. Glacigenic sediments.

9. Mapping glaciers and glacial landforms.

10. Monitoring and reconstructing glacier fluctuations.

References.

Index.

Field Techniques in Glaciology and Glacial

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      Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 15/04/2005
      ISBN13: 9780470844274, 978-0470844274
      ISBN10: 0470844272

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Students in glacial geomorphology and glaciology, engaging in fieldwork, have long done research without a definitive text guiding them on accepted techniques. Field Techniques in Glaciology and Glacial Geomorphology is the first comprehensive textbook on all the field techniques a researcher needs.

      Table of Contents
      Preface.

      Acknowledgements.

      1. Introduction.

      2. Planning and Conducting glaciological fieldwork.

      3. Glacier ice: Character, Sampling and analysis.

      4. Glacier meltwater: Character, sampling and analysis.

      5. Hot-water borehole drilling and borehole instrumentation.

      6. Ice radar.

      7. Glacier mass balance and motion.

      8. Glacigenic sediments.

      9. Mapping glaciers and glacial landforms.

      10. Monitoring and reconstructing glacier fluctuations.

      References.

      Index.

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