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Modern and Past Glacial Environments

Revised Student Edition

In combining and revising the two titles 'Past Glacial Environments' and 'Modern Glacial Environments', Dr Menzies and his contributors provide the most comprehensive and wi… Read more

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In combining and revising the two titles 'Past Glacial Environments' and 'Modern Glacial Environments', Dr Menzies and his contributors provide the most comprehensive and wide-ranging book ever prepared on both topics.

This text is produced with the student mind, providing accessibility to a complex subject and introducing topics that provide the fundamental underpinnings of knowledge on glaciers, ice sheets, their sediments and landscapes. Modern and Past Glacial Environments features a large collection of photographs, line diagrams and tables and includes examples of glacial environments and landscapes which are drawn from a world wide perspective. Together with a web- based set of current and comprehensive references and bibliographic sources, it provides an ideal reference text.

This survey includes coverage of the glaciology, geomorphology and sedimentology of modern glaciers and ice sheets, and the sediments and forms generated within Pleistocene and pre-Pleistocene glacial environments. Quaternary scientists and students will find this work their first point of reference. Likewise students of Physical Geography, Geology, Earth Science, Engineering Geology, Civil Engineering, and Environmental Sciences should find this a useful guide and reference to Glacial Geomorphology and Geology.

Key features

  • Essential new academic version
  • Highest contributors in their fields
  • Well reviewed first editions

Readership

Glacial geomorphology, geology, geography and earth sciences undergraduate and postgraduate students

Table of contents

New Academic Version PrefaceIntroduction to Glacial Environments - past and modernGlaciation & its causesGlaciers and Ice SheetsIce Flow & HydrologyGlacial Erosion & TransportationGlacial Deposition; Subglacial EnvironmentsProglacial EnvironmentsSupraglacial and Ice Marginal EnvironmentsGlaciolacustrine EnvironmentsGlaciomarine EnvironmentsGlaciotectonicsGlacial StratigraphyProblems & Perspectives

Review quotes

Reviews of the previous volume: "One cannot fail to be impressed by the wealth of information available in these two volumes"—Quaternary Science Reviews

"Essential reading for all serious students."—Antarctic Science

"A text that provides a comprehensive, current survey of the glaciology, geomorphology, and sedimentology of modern glaciers and ice sheets through an understanding of the processes, dynamics, and sediments found in these environments..."—Book News Inc.

"...provides the best synthesis of glaciology and glacial geologic processes to date...."—Eos

"Interwoven with the numerous, informative examples are past and current hypotheses about various glacial processes and attempts to integrate individual processes into larger models, each chapter identifying current problems. This approach works."—GSA Today

Product details

About the editor

JM

John Menzies

John Menzies is Professor of Earth Sciences and Geography at Brock University, Canada. He obtained degrees from the University of Aberdeen (BSc) and the University of Edinburgh (PhD). His main areas of research and expertise lie in glacial geomorphology and sedimentology with a special interest in the subglacial environment and MSGLs. He has established a micromorphology lab at Brock University and, over the past decades, has developed major research interests in glacial micromorphology/microsedimentology. He is the author of numerous scientific journal papers and of several books including the recent Past Glacial Environments (2018, Elsevier, co-edited with Prof Em. Jaap van der Meer). Prof Menzies has also co-hosted MSc training courses for nine International Workshops for the Micromorphology of Glacial Sediments for PhD students and Postdocs and Faculty.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor of Earth Sciences and Geography, Brock University, Canada

About the author

JM

John Menzies

John Menzies is Professor of Earth Sciences and Geography at Brock University, Canada. He obtained degrees from the University of Aberdeen (BSc) and the University of Edinburgh (PhD). His main areas of research and expertise lie in glacial geomorphology and sedimentology with a special interest in the subglacial environment and MSGLs. He has established a micromorphology lab at Brock University and, over the past decades, has developed major research interests in glacial micromorphology/microsedimentology. He is the author of numerous scientific journal papers and of several books including the recent Past Glacial Environments (2018, Elsevier, co-edited with Prof Em. Jaap van der Meer). Prof Menzies has also co-hosted MSc training courses for nine International Workshops for the Micromorphology of Glacial Sediments for PhD students and Postdocs and Faculty.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor of Earth Sciences and Geography, Brock University, Canada

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