Description
Book SynopsisThe awesome beauty and majesty of glaciers are presented through more than 100 photographs.
Trade Review"The photographs are unique, for no one else has taken so many extensive glacier-survey flights, and very few others possess the feeling for glaciers and alpine terrain expressed in these photographs. . . . Glacier Ice is recommended highly for the glaciologist, geologist, mountaineer, or just anyone fascinated with the beauty of nature."
* American Scientist *
"This revised edition is a truly wonderful book for anyone who has an interest in glaciers, whether for scientific, mountaineering or purely aesthetic reasons."
* The Geographical Journal *
Table of ContentsList of Illustrations
Preface to the Revised Edition
Preface to the Original Edition
Glacier Formation and Mass Balance
Major Surface Features of Ice
Glacier Flow
Glacier Fluctuations
Moraines
Glacier Surges
Ogives
Meltwater on Glaciers
Surface Details
Calving Glaciers
Glaciers, Volcanoes and Jokulhlaups
Effects of Glaciers on the Landscape
Temperate, Subpolar, and Polar Glaciers
Glossary of Glacier Terms
Selected Bibliography
Photographic Credits
