Résumé
Glaciers are among the most beautiful natural wonders on Earth, but for most of us the least known and understood. This stunning new edition of a highly acclaimed book describes how glaciers grow and decay, how they move, and how they influence human civilization.
- Describes how glaciers grow and decay, flow and shape the landscape
- Examines glaciers in the context of climate and environmental change
- Investigates how plants and animals survive in glacier-covered regions
- Explains catastrophes such as avalanches, outburst floods from lakes and the eruption of glacier-covered volcanoes
- Outlines the legacy of glaciers in the geological record
- Explores how humans live and work on glaciers
- Looks at the future prospects of glaciers in the context of climatic warming
- Worldwide photographic coverage, including the Canadian and Norwegian High Arctic, Greenland, the united States, Scandinavia, the British isles, the European Alps, Africa, the Andes from the tropics to Patagonia, the Himalaya, New Zealand and Antarctica
L'auteur - Michael Hambrey
Autres livres de Michael Hambrey
L'auteur - Jürg Alean
Autres livres de Jürg Alean
Sommaire
- Earth, the icy planet
- The glacier family
- Birth, growth and decay of glaciers
- Fluctuating glaciers
- Ice on the move
- Nature's conveyer belt
- Ice and water
- Antarctica: the icy continent
- Glaciers and volcanoes
- Shaping the landscape
- Glaciers and wildlife
- Benefits of glaciers
- Glacier hazards
- Living and travelling on glaciers
- Earth's glacial record
- Postscript : future prospects of glaciers
Caractéristiques techniques
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Éditeur(s) | Cambridge University Press |
Auteur(s) | Michael Hambrey, Jürg Alean |
Parution | 03/11/2004 |
Édition | 2eme édition |
Nb. de pages | 376 |
Format | 19,5 x 25,5 |
Couverture | Relié |
Poids | 1264g |
Intérieur | Quadri |
EAN13 | 9780521828086 |
ISBN13 | 978-0-521-82808-6 |
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