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Explains the physical principles underlying the behaviour of glaciers and ice sheets. Concentrates on the major advances made in most aspects of the subject in the past 30 years with about half devoted to work done in the last 10 years i.e. since the first edition was published. The new edition is updated, expanded and in SI units
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Dr Paterson's introduction to glacier studies was with the British North Greenland Expedition in 1053-4. He emigrated to Canada in 1957 and between 1959 and 1980 studied glaciers in the Canadian Arctic and the Rocky Mountains, mainly under the auspices of the Canadian Government's Polar Continental Shelf Project. Since 1980 he has done consulting work and has also been a visiting scientist with the Geophysics Department at the University of Copenhagen and with the Australian Antarctic Division. He has also given a comprehensive lecture course at the Institute of Glaciology and Geocryology in Lanzhou, China. He is now retired and lives in British Columbia.
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Part of the British North Greenland Expedition 1953-4. Formerly a visiting scientist at the Geophysics Department at the University of Copenhagen, and the Australian Antarctic Division.
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- PublisherPergamon Press
- Publication date1981
- ISBN 10 0080240046
- ISBN 13 9780080240046
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number2
- Number of pages380
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