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Principles of Glacier Mechanics

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Principles of Glacier Mechanics

Principles of Glacier Mechanics

2nd Edition
Roger LeB. Hooke, University of Maine, Orono
March 2005
Replaced By 9781108427340
Hardback
9780521836098
    Description

    This new edition of a successful textbook will supply advanced undergraduate and graduate students with the tools they need to understand modern glaciology. Practicing glacial geologists and glaciologists will also find the volume useful as a reference book. Relatively simple concepts are followed by more mathematically advanced chapters. Student exercises are included.

    • Develops concepts from the bottom up: a working knowledge of calculus is assumed, but beyond that, the important physical processes are developed from elementary principles
    • Ideal as a text book for upper division and graduate students
    • Draws many connections between recent glaciological research and topics of concern to glacial geologists including the origin of ice-age landforms and modeling of vanished ice sheets

    Reviews & endorsements

    "A stimulating and educative text." Journal of Glaciology

    "A tour de force of the state of modern glaciology." Global and Planetary Change

    "...provides students and practicing glaciologists with the tools they need to understand modern glaciology. The organization of the book makes it ideal for use as a textbook." - Journal of the American Water Resources Association

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    July 2005
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    217 b/w illus.
    This ISBN is for an eBook version which is distributed on our behalf by a third party.

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    Contents

    Table of Contents

    • Preface
    • Acknowledgements
    • 1. Why study glaciers?
    • 2. Some basic concepts
    • 3. Mass balance
    • 4. Flow and fracture of a crystalline material
    • 5. The velocity field in a glacier
    • 6. Temperature distribution in polar ice sheets
    • 7. The coupling between a glacier and its bed
    • 8. Water flow in and under glaciers: geomorphic implications
    • 9. Stress and deformation
    • 10. Stress and velocity distribution in an idealized glacier
    • 11. Numerical modeling
    • 12. Applications of stress and deformation principles to classical problems
    • 13. Finite strain and the origin of foliation
    • 14. Response of glaciers to changes in mass balance
    • References
    • Index.
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    • Glacial Geology
    • Research in Quaternary Geology
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    • Roger LeB. Hooke , University of Maine, Orono

      Roger LeB. Hooke is Research Professor in the Department of Earth Sciences and the Climate Change Institute, University of Maine. He has been involved in glaciological research for over 30 years, focusing on processes relevant to the origin of glacial landforms. In addition to the first edition of Principles of Glacier Mechanics, he has published over 80 refereed research papers in journals such as the Geological Society of America Bulletin, Geology, the Journal of Glaciology, Quaternary Research, and the Journal of Geology.

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