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The awesome beauty and majesty of glaciers are presented through more than 100 photographs

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations

Preface to the Revised Edition

Preface to the Original Edition

Glacier Formation and Mass Balance

Major Surface Features of Ice

Glacier Flow

Glacier Fluctuations

Moraines

Glacier Surges

Ogives

Meltwater on Glaciers

Surface Details

Calving Glaciers

Glaciers, Volcanoes and Jokulhlaups

Effects of Glaciers on the Landscape

Temperate, Subpolar, and Polar Glaciers

Glossary of Glacier Terms

Selected Bibliography

Photographic Credits

About the Author

Austin Post , formerly a hydrologist with the U.S. Geological Survey, is a noted aerial photographer. Edward R. LaChapelle is professor emeritus of geophysics and atmospheric sciences at the University of Washington.

Reviews

"The photographs are unique, for no-one else has taken so many extensive glacier-survey flights, and very few others possess the feeling for glaciers and alpine terrain expressed in these photographs... Glacier ice is recommended highly for the glaciologist, geologist, mountaineer, or just about anyone fascinated with the beauty of nature." American Scientist " ... Originally published in 1971, this revised edition [of Glacier Ice] is a truly wonderful book for anyone who has an interest in glaciers ... The book is really made by over 100 black and white photographs, many near full-page, which are best described as astounding. The text woven between the photographs is well written and informative and covers the fundamentals of glaciers ... this is a book I will recommend to students of Geography, particularly geomorphology and I would suggest that ... anybody else who comes into close proximity with glaciers should also take a look. I can guarentee it will be worthwhile."--Stephen D. Gurney, University of Reading, The Geographical Journal, March 2002