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Glaciers

This book offers a comprehensive and detailed summary of our knowledge and understanding of glaciers and sets them within a global environment context. The text explains the significance both of recent advances in glaciology, and of teh many research problms that remain to be solved. The accessible style adopted in the text facilitates a clear understanding of glaciers and the role they play in global issues such as environmental change, geoorphology and hydrology. The use of complex mathematics is avoided as the reader is introduced to important concepts and techniques in modern glaciol

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  • "Discusses the formation and movement of glaciers, how they reflect the history of the earth, and how they affect life around them."
  • "This book offers a comprehensive and detailed summary of our knowledge and understanding of glaciers and sets them within a global environment context. The text explains the significance both of recent advances in glaciology, and of teh many research problms that remain to be solved. The accessible style adopted in the text facilitates a clear understanding of glaciers and the role they play in global issues such as environmental change, geoorphology and hydrology. The use of complex mathematics is avoided as the reader is introduced to important concepts and techniques in modern glaciol"@en

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  • "Juvenile works"
  • "Electronic books"
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  • "Glaciers"
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  • "Glaciers : ice like a flower draws colour from arctic skies"
  • "Glaciers : ice like a flower; draws colour from arctic skies"

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