This book offers a comprehensive and detailed summary of our
knowledge and understanding of glaciers and sets them within a
global environment context. The text explains the significance both
of recent advances in glaciology, and of teh many research problms
that remain to be solved. The accessible style adopted in the text
facilitates a clear understanding of glaciers and the role they
play in global issues such as environmental change, geoorphology
and hydrology. The use of complex mathematics is avoided as the
reader is introduced to important concepts and techniques in modern
glaciology such as deforming beds, migrating ice-divides and stable
isotope analysis. This is an essential reference book for sutdents,
professional geologists and researchers and would be ideal for
those who want either a rapid up-date or an introduction to the
subject. The books' discussion of recent discoveries and of reserch
issues for the future, supported by a thorough reference list,
enables readers to pursue their own areas of particular interest.
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