Call number:
AWI G7-03-0488
Description / Table of Contents:
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 and ice sheets as monitors and indicators 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 concerning past, present and future climatic change in relation to glaciers.
Type of Medium:
Monograph available for loan
Pages:
X, 203 S.
,
graph. Darst.
Edition:
1. publ.
ISBN:
0340706341
Series Statement:
Key issues in environmental change
Note:
Contents: Preface. - Acknowledgements. - Chapter 1 Introduction. - 1.0 Chapter summary. - 1.1 The significance of environmental change. - 1.2 Glaciers as monitors of environmental change. - 1.3 The study of glaciers and past glacier fluctuations in the context of present and future environmental change. - Chapter 2 Theories for climate and glacier variations. - 2.0 Chapter summary. - 2.1 The astronomical (Milankovitch) theory of climate variation. - 2.2 Variation in atmospheric gas content and climate change. - 2.3 Volcanic activity and climate variations. - 2.4 Variations in solar output. - 2.5 Geodynamic factors. - Chapter 3 Methods of palaeoenvironmental reconstruction. - 3.0 Chapter summary. - 3.1 Stable isotope variations in ice cores. - 3.2 Climate records from ice cores. - 3.3 Gas content in ice cores. - 3.4 Microparticles and radioactive tracers in ice cores. - 3.5 Volcanism and climate. - 3.6 Mapping and measuring glacier-front variations. - 3.7 Terminal moraines. - 3.8 Lacustrine sediments. - 3.9 Marine sediments. - Chapter 4 Glacier dynamics. - 4.0 Chapter summary. - 4.1 Present distribution of glaciers. - 4.2 Glacier types. - 4.3 Temperature distribution in glaciers and ice sheets. - 4.4 Glacier monitoring. - 4.5 Glacier monitoring by satellites. - 4.6 Determination of the equilibrium line altitude (ELA). - 4.7 Reconstruction of the equilibrium line altitude. - 4.8 Mass balance. - 4.9 Frontal variations. - 4.10 Response time/time lag. - 4.11 Glacier movement. - 4.12 Supraglacial ice morphology. - 4.13 Glacier hydrology. - 4.14 Calving glaciers. - 4.15 Surging and tidewater glaciers. - 4.16 Reconstruction of ice-surface profiles and calculation of basal shear stress. - Chapter 5 Glacier variations. - 5.0 Chapter summary. - 5.1 Pre-Quaternary glaciations. - 5.2 Glacial/interglacial cycles during the Quaternary. - 5.3 Late Cenozoic glacier and climate variations. - 5.4 Late-glacial glacier and climate variations in NW Europe. - 5.5 Variations of local glaciers during the last glaciation. - 5.6 Holocene glacier and climate variations. - 5.7 Neoglacial glacier variations. - 5.8 Little Ice Age glacier variations. - 5.9 Glaciers, environmental change and the human race. - 5.10 Models of Late Quaternary climate and ice-sheet evolution. - Chapter 6 Late Quaternary sea-level changes. - 6.0 Chapter summary. - 6.1 Glacio-eustasy and glacio-isostasy. - 6.2 Relative sea-level changes. - 6.3 Sea ice. - 6.4 Models of future sea-level changes. - Chapter 7 Models of future climatic change. - 7.0 Chapter summary. - 7.1 Orbitally-induced (Milankovitch) climate change. - 7.2 Greenhouse gas-induced warming. - 7.3 Natural versus anthropogenic forcing. - 7.4 Energy balance models and glacier variations. - 7.5 Global circulation models (GCMs). - 7.6 Future research priorities. - References. - Index.
Location:
AWI Reading room
Branch Library:
AWI Library
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