Product Description

Most of us only encounter ice in the winter or as small blocks in drinks, and in this form it appears rigid and brittle. In glaciers, ice behaves in a variety of surprising and fascinating ways - flowing plastically, like toothpaste, carving out huge troughs and altering entire landscapes; changing the Earth's climate, and preserving valuable geological records. Either directly ot indirectly, glaciers and glaciation affect a large proportion of this planet's population.

This major new text provides a synthesis of the nature, origin and behaviour of glacier systems and the geological and geomorphlological evidence for their former existence. The first part of the book investigates the processes involved in forming glacier ice, the nature of glacier/climate relationships, the mechanisms of glacier flow, and the interactions of glaciers with other systems such as slopes, rivers, lakes and oceans. In the second part, emphasis is placed on landform/sediment associations, the interpretation of the earth's glacial legacy, and the reconstruction of glacial depositional environments and palaeoglaciology.

Glaciers and Glaciation features a superb collection of colour and black and white photographs, over 300 in all, together with over 450 line diagrams. Using case studies drawn from around the world, it is referenced throughout and concludes with a fully comprehensive bibliography. This stimulating and accessible text is an essential tool for all students of this fascinating field of study throughout their university career.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #99344 in Books
• Published on: 1998-11-28
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 760 pages

Choice
...the most comprehensive, up-to-date, and professional work available on this topic... This is a masterpiece...beyond competition.

Review
...the most comprehensive, up-to-date, and professional work available on this topic... This is a masterpiece...beyond competition. (Choice )

This is a masterpiece. (Choice, July 1998 )

...beyond competition. (Choice, July 1998 )

Choice, July 1998
...beyond competition.

Customer Reviews

An excellent book and great value
'Glaciers and Glaciation' was just what the market needed. Benn and Evans have obviously pulled the stops out to produce a detailed and up to date review of the state of the discipline, and very successfully. The book is not only well written, but well presented, with diagrams and pictures being clear and easy to follow (which is essential in the book of this nature). It is the first point of reference for me on glacial matters. The layout is logical and the index useful and accurate. Given all of the above, it would be fair to expect a substantial (library only) price tag, but no, it has a student-friendly price. Outstanding!