Glaciers and Environmental Change
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Book Description
This authoritative new text provides a thorough, updated account of glaciers and ice sheets as monitors and indicators of environmental change. It examines the record of environmental change within glaciers and ice sheets, and that of past environments left by retreating glaciers. These themes are examined within the context of environmental change in general and global climate change in particular. Methods of using palaeoenvironmental records are assessed and the implications for future environmental change are discussed.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Theories for climate and glacier variations; Chapter 3 Methods of palaeoenvironmental reconstruction; Chapter 4 Glacier dynamics; Chapter 5 Glacier variations; Chapter 6 Late Quaternary sea-level changes; Chapter 7 Models of future climatic change;
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Biography
Nesje, Atle; Dahl, Svein Olat
Reviews
...useful to advanced undergraduates, postgraduates and researchers.
Journal of Quaternary Science
The book, which is quite short, covers a surprisingly large number of topics in seven well-organized main chapters. The overall impression of the book is clearly positive and the authors are to be congratulated for having undertaken such a formidable task.
World Meteorological Organization Bulletin
Provides a good introduction to the aspects of Quaternary research indicated by the title...a good book and highly recommended to all who are teaching or studying environmental change.
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