Paperback

ISBN-10: 0340706341

Published: 28/04/2000

Extent: 216 pages

Illustrations: c.100 b/w illus

Series: Key Issues in Environmental Change

 

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Summary:
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.

Evidence from glacier ice left in the landscape or within the geological record, provides one of the most important sources of information on environmental change. 'Glaciers and Environmental Change' is a comprehensive account of glaciers andice sheets as monitors and indictaors of environmental change. Based on the latest research, this book consolidates a diverse range of data and explains their applications. it also assesses methods of using palaeoenvironmental records.

This authoritative new text examines not only the records of environmental change within glaciers but also that of past environments left by retreating glaciers. These themes are examined within the context of contemporary debates in environmental change and the volume also seeks to draw conclusions concernign past, present and future climatic change in relation to glaciers.

• Consolidates a diverse range of data and explains their applications
• Draws conclusions concerning past, present and future climatic change in relation to glaciers
• Integrates environmental change and glacial processes with evidence from glaciers for environmental change
• The most up-to-date text available concentrating on evidence from glaciers as an important source of information on environmental change

Table of Contents:
Theories for climate and glacier variations
Methods of palaeoenvironmental reconstruction
Glacier dynamics
Glacier variations
Late quaternary sea-level changes
Models of future climatic change.

Readership:
2nd/3rd year undergraduate and postgraduate students studying glaciers and environmental change in physical geography, glaciology, Quaternary science, palaeoclimatology and geology.

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