Glacial Environments

by Michael J. Hambrey

Book Overview

Enhanced by many photographic illustrations of extraordinaryquality, this textbook will provide students with a completeintroduction to the scientific study of environments dominated by snowand ice. Glacial environments are scenically and scientifically amongthe most exciting on Earth, and at the same time they are among themost complex. Apart from the processes associated directly with movingice, other processes -- fluvial, acolian, lacustrine, and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0774805102
• ISBN13: 9780774805100
• Release Date: December 2001
• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.54 lbs.