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Glaciers and Environmental Change.

By: Contributor(s): Series: Key issues in environmental changeLondon : Arnold ; 2000New York : co-published in the U.S. by Oxford University Press, 2000Description: x, 203 p. : ill., maps ; 26 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0340706376
  • 0340706341 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 551.312 21
LOC classification:
  • QC981.8.C5 N47 2000
Summary: This authoritative new text provides a thorough, updated account of glaciers and ice sheets as monitors and indicators of environmental change. It examines the record of environmental change within glaciers and ice sheets, and that of past environments left by retreating glaciers. These themes are examined within the context of environmental change in general and global climate change in particular. Methods of using palaeoenvironmental records are assessed and the implications for future environmental change are discussed.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
BOOK BOOK NCAR Library Foothills Lab QC981.8 .C5 .N47 2000 1 Available 50583010366254
Total holds: 0

Includes bibliographical references (p. [184]-200) and index.

This authoritative new text provides a thorough, updated account of glaciers and ice sheets as monitors and indicators of environmental change. It examines the record of environmental change within glaciers and ice sheets, and that of past environments left by retreating glaciers. These themes are examined within the context of environmental change in general and global climate change in particular. Methods of using palaeoenvironmental records are assessed and the implications for future environmental change are discussed.

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