Juneau Icefield Research Project (1949-1958) : a retrospective /

The Juneau Icefield Research Project (JIRP), which was founded in 1946 and which changed its name to Juneau Icefield Research Program sometime in the 1950s or early 1960s, was formed to find a prototype area to study Alaska's coastal glaciers and trends in climatic change. For the past 57 years...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Heusser, Calvin J. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; Boston ; Heidelberg ; London : Elsevier, 2007.
�2007
Edición:First edition.
Colección:Developments in Quaternary science ; 8.
Temas:
Juneau Ice Field Research Project.
Juneau Icefield Research Program.
Juneau Icefield Research Program
Juneau Ice Field Research Project
Glacial climates > Juneau Icefield (Alaska and B.C.)
Glaciers > Juneau Icefield (Alaska and B.C.)
Climatic changes.
Climate Change
Climat > Changements.
climate change.
SCIENCE > Earth Sciences > Sedimentology & Stratigraphy.
Glacial climates
Climatic changes
Glaciers
Forschungsprojekt
North America > Juneau Icefield
Juneau Ice Field
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part I. Background of the project. 1. Introduction
  • Part 2. Early years of the projects (1949-1952) ; 3. 1949 field season ; 4. 1950 field season ; 5. 1951 field season ; 6. 1952 field season
  • Part 3. Later years of the project. 7. 1953 field season ; 8. 1954 field season ; 9. 1955 field season ; 10. 1956 field season ; 11. 1957 field season ; 12. 1958 Field Season
  • Part 4. Summation ; 13. Taku Glacier variations ; 14. Lemon Creek Glacier variations
  • Part 5. Late Quaternary paleoecology of North Pacific America ; An overview ; 15. Glacial, climatic, and biotic setting.

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