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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgements | |
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| Illustrations | |
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| Introduction | |
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| What is Glacial Geology and Why is it Important? | |
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| The Aim and Structure of this Book | |
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| Glaciations Around The Globe | |
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| The Antarctic Ice Sheet | |
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| Greenland in the Greenhouse | |
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| Southern Hemisphere Temperate Glaciers: Patagonia and New Zealand | |
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| Northern Hemisphere Temperate Glaciers: Alaska and Iceland | |
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| High-Altitude Glaciers: The Himalaya | |
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| Tropical Glaciers: The Cordillera Blanca, Peru | |
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| Arctic Polythermal Glaciers | |
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| Summary | |
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| Mass Balance and the Mechanisms of Ice Flow | |
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| Annual Mass Balance | |
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| The Mass Balance Gradient: The Glacial Driving Mechanism | |
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| Mechanisms of Ice Flow | |
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| The Principles of Basal Thermal Regime | |
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| Patterns and Rates of Ice Flow | |
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| Glacier Response to Climate Change | |
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| Summary | |
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| Glacier Hydrology | |
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| Glacier Hydrology | |
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| Sources of Glacial Meltwater | |
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| Storage of Water in Glaciers | |
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| Methods of Studying Glacier Hydrology | |
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| Glacier Hydrological Systems | |
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| Subglacial Water Pressure | |
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| Discharge Fluctuations | |
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| Glacial Meltwater Erosion | |
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| Summary | |
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| The Processes of Glacial Erosion | |
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| Glacial Abrasion | |
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| Glacial Quarrying | |
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| Estimating Rates of Glacial Erosion | |
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| Patterns of Glacial Erosion | |
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| Summary | |
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| Landforms of Glacial Erosion | |
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| Microscale Features of Glacial Erosion | |
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| Mesoscale Features of Glacial Erosion | |
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| Macroscale Features of Glacial Erosion | |
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| Landscapes of Glacial Erosion | |
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| Summary | |
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| Glacial Debris Entrainment and Transport | |
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| High-Level Debris Transport | |
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| Debris Entrainment | |
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| Low-Level Debris Transport | |
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| Debris Transfer Between Low and High Levels | |
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| Debris Transfer | |
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| Summary | |
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| Glacial Sedimentation on Land | |
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| Direct Glacial Sedimentation | |
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| Fluvial Sedimentation | |
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| Summary | |
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| Landforms of Glacial Deposition on Land | |
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| Ice-Marginal Moraines | |
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| Subglacial Landforms Formed by Ice or Sediment Flow | |
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| Glaciofluvial Ice-Marginal Landforms | |
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| Glaciofluvial Subglacial Landforms | |
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| Summary | |
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| Glacial Sedimentation in Water | |
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| Sedimentation in Lacustrine Environments | |
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| Sedimentation in Marine Environments | |
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| Distinguishing Glaciolacustrine and Glaciomarine Diamicts from Glacial Tills | |
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| Summary | |
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| Landforms of Glacial Deposition in Water | |
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| Glaciolacustrine Landforms | |
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| Glaciomarine Landforms | |
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| Summary | |
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| Palaeoglaciology | |
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| The Methods Used in Palaeoglaciology | |
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| The Key Landforms Used in Palaeoglaciology | |
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| Former Subglacial Thermal Regimes | |
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| Palaeoglaciological Reconstructions | |
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| Summary | |
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| Suggested Reading | |
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| Index | |