Dyson, James L (James Lindsay) 1912-1967 Search this
Physical description:
xviii, 292, xiii pages, 62 pages of plates illustrations, maps 25 cm
Type:
Books
Book covers
Book design
Dust jackets (Bindings)
Dust jackets
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Place:
United States
Date:
1962
Contents:
Snowlines and glaciers. The blanket of snow ; Lands of permanent snow ; The snowline has its ups and downs ; Lands of snow inviolate -- The birth of a glacier. Glaciers are classified -- Ice streams on the move. How does a glacier move? -- Ice sculptures the face of the land -- Mountain glaciers are nearly everywhere. There are many others -- Glaciers and mountaineers. Mountaineers take to the air -- Where the water comes from. Too much water ; Floods of another day -- The ice age in full swing. The big ice sheets ; Crevasses ; How old is the ice? ; The ice is thick -- Ice breaks the back of the continent. What lies beneath the ice? ; What about settlements? -- Ice of the sea. The polar pack ; The Antarctic -- Ghost ships of the Arctic. Occupancy ; What route do they follow? ; What made them? -- Life on ice -- Ice beneath the ground -- Ice and our changing climate -- Nature keeps the record. Before the neothermal ; Those oxygen isotopes again -- The ice sheet makes a new world. Streamlined drift ; Lakes, lakes, everywhere ; The lands emerge ; Seas come and go -- Where will the world of ice go from here?