Ice Age

Inbunden, Engelska, 2022

AvJürgen Ehlers,Jurgen Ehlers

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Nothing new from the Ice Age? The sequence of the individual ice advances, the direction of ice movement and the direction of meltwater drainage are only partially known, but they can be reconstructed.

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Utgivningsdatum2022-08-20
Mått210 x 279 x 34 mm
Vikt1 270 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor411
FörlagSpringer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG
ISBN9783662645895
OriginaltitelDas Eiszeitalter

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Geovetenskap inom Naturvetenskap och teknik
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Dr. Jürgen Ehlers is a German geoscientist. Together with Prof. Philip L. Gibbard, Cambridge, he has led the project 'Extent and Chronology of Quaternary Glaciations' for the International Union for Quaternary Research, involving 170 scientists from 50 countries. Gibbard and Ehlers are among the best experts on glacial geology and were awarded the Medal of Merit of the German Quaternary Association (DEUQUA). Ehlers is the author of several books on the Quaternary (Enke and Wiley) and on the North Sea (WBG) and is also known as an author of historical crime fiction.

Introduction.- The course of the ice age.- Ice and water.- Tills and terminal moraines - the traces of the glaciers.- From the glacial mill to the glacial valley.- Maps - where are we actually here?.- How far did the glaciers reach?.- Ice in the ground - the formation of the periglacial regions.- Hippos on the Thames - the history of the warm periods.- Sequence of deglaciation.- Wind, sand and stones - the aeolian processes.- What happened to the rivers?.- North Sea and Baltic Sea in the ice age.- Climate reconstructions and models.- Man intervenes.