Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface to the first edition
- Preface to the second edition
- Physical constants relevant to ice
- Derived SI units and conversion factors
- 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
- Appendix: Problems
- References
- Index
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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 November 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface to the first edition
- Preface to the second edition
- Physical constants relevant to ice
- Derived SI units and conversion factors
- 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
- Appendix: Problems
- References
- Index
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- Principles of Glacier Mechanics , pp. 421 - 429Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2005