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Spitsbergen push moraines /
The book deals with push moraines on Spitsbergen. The main body is a translation of the original German report by Karl Gripp on a 1927 expedition. The quality of Gripp's work is evaluated to see whether it stands the test of time. It is found that it is very modern, every year people still go i...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; Boston :
Elsevier,
2004.
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| Colección: | Developments in Quaternary science ;
4. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo Texto completo |
| Sumario: | The book deals with push moraines on Spitsbergen. The main body is a translation of the original German report by Karl Gripp on a 1927 expedition. The quality of Gripp's work is evaluated to see whether it stands the test of time. It is found that it is very modern, every year people still go into the field with the same research questions. It is also found that most likely Gripp's report contains the first description of features that we now take for granted, for instance the description of looped moraines to detect surges. Push moraines are still being studied and to show where we stand now two papers have been added that analyse two particular examples, Holmst�rmbreen and Sefst�rmbreen. The two examples are geographically close together, but reflect two completely different settings: terrestrial Holmst�rmbreen and tidewater Sefst�rmbreen. Since a few years we know of the De Geer Archive, a collection of glass negatives of Spitsbergen, relating to De Geer's expeditions between 1882 and 1910. The negatives have only emerged recently and a collection of prints relating to Holmst�rmbreen and Sefst�rmbreen is included here. Together with a third paper incorporated in the book, this time an evaluation of De Geer's photos and maps of the Sefst�rmbreen surge, this material shows the importance of incorporating historical documentation in our studies. |
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| Notas: | "Including a translation of K. Gripp: Glaciologische und geologische Ergebnisse der Hamburgischen Spitzbergen-Expedition 1927 and reprints of the De Geer Archive in Stockholm exemplified by the documentation on a late-nineteenth century glacier surge in Spitsbergen; Till and moraine emplacement in a deforming bed surge : an example from a marine environment; The sedimentary and structural evolution of a recent push moraine complex : Holmstr�ombreen, Spitsbergen." Contains 2 reprinted articles by G.S. Boulton [and others]. |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xi, 200 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780444515445 0444515445 0080541615 9780080541617 1281019100 9781281019103 |
| ISSN: | 1571-0866 ; |