The physics of glaciers / K. M. Cuffey, W. S. B. Paterson.
Author
- Cuffey, Kurt [author]
Other titles
- VLEbooks.
Edition
- Fourth edition.
Published
- Amsterdam, [Netherlands] : Butterworth-Heinemann 2010
Physical description
1 online resource (721 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations
ISBN
- 9781493300761
- 9780080919126 (e-book)
Notes
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other format: Also available in printed form ISBN 9780123694614
- Reproduction available: Electronic reproduction. Askews and Holts. Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record.
Audience
- Specialized.
Contents
- 1.Introduction 2. Transformation of Snow to Ice 3. Grain-Scale Structures and Deformation of Ice 4. Mass Balance Processes: Overview and Regimes 5. Mass Balance Processes: Surface Ablation and Energy Budget; 6. Glacial Hydrology; 7. Basal Slip; 8. The Flow of Ice Masses; 9. Temperatures in Ice Masses; 10. Large-Scale Structures; 11. Reaction of Glaciers to Environmental Changes; 12. Glacier Surges; 13. Ice Sheets and the Earth System; 14. Ice, Sea Level, and Contemporary Climate Change; 15. Ice Core Studies.
Subject
- Glaciers.
- Glaciers.
- Science
- Earth sciences
- Geophysics
- Geology & the lithosphere
- Science.
- Glaciers.
- Physics of Glaciers; Geomorphology.
- Geophysics.
- Physics Glaciers Hydrology.
- 551.32 -- Glaciology.
- 551.324 -- Land ice.
- 551.324.22 -- Glaciers.
- 551.324.24 -- Ice sheets and caps.
- 551.583 -- Climatic changes.
- 551.588.5 -- Climate, relationship with ice.
- 551.334 -- Glacial isostasy, eustasy and other effects of ice cover.
- 551.324.5 -- Land ice, flow.
- 551.322 -- Ice and snow.
- 539.3 -- Ice, mechanical properties.
- 551.324.4 -- Land ice, mass and energy balance.
- 551.321 -- Glaciological methods and instruments.
- 622.14 -- Core sampling, ice and snow.
- 03 -- Reference works.
- E5 -- Glaciology: land ice.
- Gletscher Physikalische Eigenschaft.
- Eis Physikalische Eigenschaft.
- Gletscher ; 0 Gesamtdarstellung.
- Glaziologie.
Other names
- Paterson, W. S. B. [author]
Related item
- Print version:: Cuffey, Kurt. Physics of glaciers. Fourth edition. Amsterdam, [Netherlands] : Academic Press, c2010 xii, 693 pages ; ISBN: 9781493300761
Genre
- Electronic books.
- text
- UK eLD e-books
Language
- English
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Summary
- This classic text covers the physical principles underlying the behaviour of glaciers - terrestrial ice bodies originating as accumulations of snow - including mountain glaciers, small ice caps, ice sheets, and shelves.
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| University of Aberdeen Libraries: Sir Duncan Rice Library: Floor 5 | 551.312 CUF | ||
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| University of Cambridge Libraries: Pembroke College: Main Library | 551,89 | ||
| University of Cambridge Libraries: Corpus Christi College: Taylor Library | M.1a.CUF | ||
| University of Cambridge Libraries: Plant Sciences Library: Main Library | JA 192 | [Reserve] | |
| University of Cambridge Libraries: Gonville and Caius College Library: Upper Library | 551.312 C | ||
| University of Cambridge Libraries: Homerton College Library: Main Library | 551.31 CUF | Library holds one copy | |
| University of Cambridge Libraries: Clare College (Forbes Mellon Library ): Main Library | 551.31 CUF | ||
| University of Cambridge Libraries: Churchill College Library: Bracken Gallery | 551.312 | ||
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| University of Cambridge Libraries: Murray Edwards College (Rosemary Murray Library): Main Library | 551.312 CUF | ||
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| University of Cambridge Libraries: Trinity Hall: Jerwood Library | 551.312 CUF | ||
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| University of Hull: BJL 4th Floor | GB 2403.2 C9 | ||
| Imperial College London Library: Central Library: Level 4 | 551.312 CUF | ||
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| University of Reading Library: University Library: 3rd Floor | 551.312-PAT | ||
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