{"product_id":"ice-sheets-and-late-quaternary-environmental-change-isbn-9780471985709","title":"Ice Sheets and Late Quaternary Environmental Change","description":"Ice Sheets and Late Quaternary Environmental Change provides a detailed account of the temporal and spatial distribution of ice sheets during the last ice age, and how these ice masses interacted with the environment. This is the first book in 20 years to detail the sizes of ice sheets during the last glaciation and the first to discuss their role in past climate change.\u003cbr\u003e Arranged in two parts, the first part provides the tools required for evaluating past ice sheets while the second part uses these tools to establish the size, extent and dynamics of late Quaternary ice sheets. Assuming no prior knowledge of Quaternary Science, the discussion progresses from the basic principles of how and why ices ages occur, to the interpretation of proxy records of past climate and ocean change.\u003cbr\u003e Instructive accounts of how the geological record can be used as evidence of former ice sheet behaviour and a discussion on the role of numerical models in understanding interaction between ice sheets, oceans and the atmosphere are included in this book. Details of former ice sheets are presented by geographical region along with a number of critical new theories on their size and behaviour.\u003cbr\u003e This book would appeal to 2nd\/3rd year students of Quaternary Science, most University Geography, Earth Science or Geology departments, as well as researchers and academics in Quaternary Science.Dieser Band diskutiert aus moderner Sicht die zeitabhängige Entwicklung der letzten Gletscher - Hinterlassenschaften der jüngsten Eiszeit. Wichtige Schwerpunkte bilden die Bewegung und die Fließeigenschaften der Eisschichten, die Verformung wassergesättigter Sedimente unter dem Eis, neue geologische Erkenntnisse hinsichtlich des Ausmaßes der letzten Vereisung sowie eine gründliche Einführung in einschlägige numerische Modelle. Ein detailliertes und aktuelles Lehrbuch! Preface.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgements.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Causes of Ice Ages.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Indicators of Ice Volume and Climate Change.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The Flow of Ice and Ice Sheet Modelling.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Late Quaternary Geology I -\u003cbr\u003e Terrestrial: Glacial Morphology and Sedimentology.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Late Quaternary Geology II -\u003cbr\u003e Raised Shorelines and Continental Shelf.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Late Quaternary Geology III -\u003cbr\u003e Continental Shelf-Break Sediments and Deep Sea Environments and Iceberg Debris.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Late Quaternary Palaeoclimate.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Late Quaternary Palaeoceanography.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Ice Sheet Reconstructions I -\u003cbr\u003e The Antarctic Ice Sheet.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Ice Sheet Reconstructions II -\u003cbr\u003e The Greenland Ice Sheet.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Ice Sheet Reconstructions III -\u003cbr\u003e The British Isles Ice Sheet, Scandinavian Ice Sheet, Eurasian High Arctic Ice Sheets (Barents Ice Sheet).\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Ice Sheet Reconstructions IV -\u003cbr\u003e North America, Laurentide Ice Sheet, Cordilleran Ice Sheet, Innuitian Ice Sheet.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Ice Sheet Reconstructions V -\u003cbr\u003e Remaining LGM Ice Cover, Iceland, South America: Patagonia and the Andes, South Island (New Zealand) and Tasmania, Mainland Europe, Tibet.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e References.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Index. \"...The book should become essential reading in any Quaternary, glacial geology and glaciology course.\" Geological Magazine  \u003cp\u003eMartin J. Siegert FRSE is a British glaciologist, a professor at Imperial College London, and co-director of the Grantham Institute - Climate Change and Environment.  Ice Sheets and Late Quaternary Environmental Change provides a detailed account of the temporal and spatial distribution of ice sheets during the last ice age, and how these ice masses interacted with the environment. This is the first book in 20 years to detail the sizes of ice sheets during the last glaciation and the first to discuss their role in past climate change.\u003cbr\u003e Arranged in two parts, the first part provides the tools required for evaluating past ice sheets while the second part uses these tools to establish the size, extent and dynamics of late Quaternary ice sheets. Assuming no prior knowledge of Quaternary Science, the discussion progresses from the basic principles of how and why ices ages occur, to the interpretation of proxy records of past climate and ocean change.\u003cbr\u003e Instructive accounts of how the geological record can be used as evidence of former ice sheet behaviour and a discussion on the role of numerical models in understanding interaction between ice sheets, oceans and the atmosphere are included in this book. Details of former ice sheets are presented by geographical region along with a number of critical new theories on their size and behaviour.\u003cbr\u003e This book would appeal to 2nd\/3rd year students of Quaternary Science, most University Geography, Earth Science or Geology departments, as well as researchers and academics in Quaternary Science.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47989397553381,"sku":"NP9780471985709","price":92.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780471985709.jpg?v=1761783953","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/ice-sheets-and-late-quaternary-environmental-change-isbn-9780471985709","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}