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Ice Sheets and Late Quaternary Environmental Change

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Ice Sheets and Late Quaternary Environmental Change, Holton, James R., 9780471985709

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Dieser Band diskutiert aus moderner Sicht die zeitabhngige Entwicklung der letzten Gletscher – Hinterlassenschaften der jngsten Eiszeit. Wichtige Schwerpunkte bilden die Bewegung und die Flieeigenschaften der Eisschichten, die Verformung wassergesttigter Sedimente unter dem Eis, neue geologische Erkenntnisse hinsichtlich des Ausmaes der letzten Vereisung sowie eine grndliche Einfhrung in einschlgige numerische Modelle. Ein detailliertes und aktuelles Lehrbuch! Preface. Acknowledgements. Causes of Ice Ages. Indicators of Ice Volume and Climate Change. The Flow of Ice and Ice Sheet Modelling. Late Quaternary Geology I – Terrestrial: Glacial Morphology and Sedimentology. Late Quaternary Geology II – Raised Shorelines and Continental Shelf. Late Quaternary Geology III – Continental Shelf-Break Sediments and Deep Sea Environments and Iceberg Debris. Late Quaternary Palaeoclimate. Late Quaternary Palaeoceanography. Ice Sheet Reconstructions I – The Antarctic Ice Sheet. Ice Sheet Reconstructions II – The Greenland Ice Sheet. Ice Sheet Reconstructions III – The British Isles Ice Sheet, Scandinavian Ice Sheet, Eurasian High Arctic Ice Sheets (Barents Ice Sheet). Ice Sheet Reconstructions IV – North America, Laurentide Ice Sheet, Cordilleran Ice Sheet, Innuitian Ice Sheet. Ice Sheet Reconstructions V – Remaining LGM Ice Cover, Iceland, South America: Patagonia and the Andes, South Island (New Zealand) and Tasmania, Mainland Europe, Tibet. References. Index.

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