Vanishing Ice : : Glaciers, Ice Sheets, and Rising Seas /

Vanishing Ice : : Glaciers, Ice Sheets, and Rising Seas / / Vivien Gornitz.

The Arctic is thawing. In summer, cruise ships sail through the once ice-clogged Northwest Passage, lakes form on top of the Greenland Ice Sheet, and polar bears swim farther and farther in search of waning ice floes. At the opposite end of the world, floating Antarctic ice shelves are shrinking. Mo...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019
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Gornitz, Vivien,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2019]
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Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource :; 55 figures
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • PREFACE
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • 1. WHITHER THE SNOWS OF YESTERYEAR?
  • 2. ICE AFLOAT-ICE SHELVES, ICEBERGS, AND SEA ICE
  • 3. IMPERMANENT PERMAFROST
  • 4. DARKENING MOUNTAINS- DISAPPEARING GLACIERS
  • 5. THE GREENLAND ICE SHEET
  • 6. ANTARCTICA - The Giant Ice Locker
  • 7. FROM GREENHOUSE TO ICEHOUSE
  • 8. RETURN TO THE GREENHOUSE
  • 9. THE IMPORTANCE OF ICE
  • APPENDIX A. ANTICIPATING FUTURE CLIMATE CHANGE
  • APPENDIX B. EYES IN THE SKY-MONITORING THE CRYOSPHERE FROM ABOVE
  • APPENDIX C. GEOLOGIC TIME SCALE
  • GLOSSARY
  • NOTES
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX

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