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The volume highlights developments in our understanding of the palaeogeographical, palaeobiological, palaeoclimatic and cryospheric evolution of Antarctica. It focuses on the sedimentary record from the Devonian to the Quaternary Period. It features tectonic evolution and stratigraphy, as well as processes taking place adjacent to, beneath and beyond the ice-sheet margin, including the continental shelf. --
Evolutionary paleoecology --- Paleoecology --- Paleogeography --- Paleobiology --- Paleoclimatology --- Evolutionary paleoecology. --- Paleobiology. --- Paleoclimatology. --- Paleoecology. --- Paleogeography. --- Antarctica.
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"This book provides an illustrated guide to the wide variety of features found on and around the world's glaciers and ice sheets as well as the products of glacial erosion and deposition. It stresses both the beauty and utility of glaciers and demonstrates how our lives are influenced by one of the key components of the Earth system, the cryosphere. The authors cover glaciers and their landforms and explain some of the key concepts in glaciology and glacial geology."--Amazon.com
Glaciers. --- Glacial landforms. --- Glaciology. --- Glaciers --- Glacial landforms --- Glaciology
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A richly illustrated account of the Antarctic continent, covering its physical environment, biology and history.
Natural history --- Antarctica --- Antarctica --- Antarctica --- History. --- Discovery and exploration.
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Glaciers are among the most beautiful natural wonders on Earth, but for most of us the least known and understood. This book describes how glaciers grow and decay, how they move, and how they influence human civilisation. Today covering a tenth of the Earth's surface, glacier ice has shaped the landscape over millions of years by scouring away rocks, transporting and depositing debris far from its source. Glacier meltwater drives turbines and irrigates deserts, yields mineral-rich soils, and has left us a wealth of valuable sand and gravel. However, glaciers also threaten human property and life. Our future is indirectly bound up with the fate of glaciers and their influence on global climate and sea level. A lively running text develops these themes and is supported by over 200 stunning photographs, taking us from the High-Arctic through North America, Europe, Asia, Africa, New Zealand and South America to the Antarctic.
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