Modern glacial environments 1st ed.

Modern Glacial Environments provides a current and comprehensive survey of the glaciology, geomorphology and sedimentology of modern glaciers and ice sheets through an appreciation of the processes, dynamics and sediments found in these environments. The book presents university students with a comprehensive review of modern research and ideas on glacial environments incorporating glaciology, glacial geomorphology and geology and sedimentology.

This text considers the cause of glaciation, ice sheet modelling, glacial physics, hydrology, processes of erosion, transportation, deposition and glaciotectonism. Other chapters cover modern proglacial, supraglacial, glaciolacustrine and glaciomarine environments.

A companion volume: Past Glacial Environments: Sediments, forms and techniques, also edited by John Menzies, covers both Pleistocene and Pre-Pleistocene environments. This companion text includes chapters on past subglacial, supraglacial, glaciolacustrine and glaciomarine environments.

Themes in this book consider glacial stratigraphy, lithofacies associations, paleosols, glacio-isostasy and eustasy as well as chapters on drift prospecting, placer mining, SEM, micromorphology and radiometric dating techniques.