Call number:
AWI G3-01-0025
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ad AWI G3-01-0025
Description / Table of Contents:
Contents: Introduction. - PART 1. HISTORY AND METHODOLOGY OF ISOTOPE STUDY. - Chapter 1. History of the discoveryof stable and radioactive isotopes, the principles of their use and measurement techniques. - Chapter 2. Application of stable and radioactive isotopes to determine the age, origin and conditions of formation for studies of Quaternary materials of the lithosphere and hydrosphere. - Chapter 3. Theoretical principles of stable isotope analysis in cryospheric studies. - PART 2. ISOTOPE PALAEOTHERMOMETER. - Chapter 4. Relationship of stable isotope composition and temperature. - Chapter 5. Stable isotopes in the study of the genesis and formation of ice sheets and glaciers. - Chapter 6. Stable isotope in ground ice and their use for cryogenic, palaeoglaciological and palaeogeographical reconstructions. - PART 3. ISOTOPE PALAEOCHRONOMETER. - Chapter 7. Radioactive isotopes and the study of glaciers age. - Chapter 8. Radioactive isotopes and the determination of ground ice age. - Conclusion. - Biographies of isotope specialists. - References
Description / Table of Contents:
This textbook presents the main principles and applications of stable and radioactive isotopes to the study of glaciers and ground ice. It includes a variety of features: the basic principles of stable and radioactive isotope study in the cryosphere, the preservation of ice records and measurement techniques. It describes the relationship of isotope fractionation and isotope composition with the temperature of precipitation for glaciers and ground ice and then uses these principles to explain cryospheric processes. It considers the records of ice cores from the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets, ice caps of the Arctic Islands and a number of mountain glaciers. Reference cross-sections for ice-wedges and massive ice of Late Pleistocene and Holocene age througout Siberia and Northern America are presented together with numerous diagrams and data tables. Modern research methods of radioactive isotope application for ground and glacier ice dating are discussed. The textbook is intended for undergraduates as well as graduates students. It will help geocryologists, glaciologists, geographers, geomorphologists, Quaternary geologists and paleoclimatologists to understand the outcome of isotopic processes occuring in cryosphere and to realize the important role they play in environmental evolution.
Type of Medium:
Monograph available for loan
Pages:
613 S. : Ill., graph. Darst
ISBN:
5211025571
Location:
AWI Reading room
Location:
AWI Reading room
Branch Library:
AWI Library
Branch Library:
AWI Library
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