Exploration of Subsurface Antarctica - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Exploration of Subsurface Antarctica write by M.J. Siegert. This book was released on 2018-01-08. Exploration of Subsurface Antarctica available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Our appreciation of glaciological processes in Antarctica suffers from a lack of observations in regions where numerical models indicate the ice sheet to be susceptible to ocean and/or atmospheric warming. The solution lies in the use and development of glacier geophysics. In this volume we present a series of papers that demonstrate how geophysics can be deployed in Antarctica to comprehend: (1) boundary conditions that influence ice flow such as subglacial topography, the distribution of basal water and ice-sheet rheology; (2) phenomena that might affect ice-flow processes, such as complex internal ice-sheet structures and the proposition of large stores of hitherto unappreciated groundwater; and (3) how glacigenic sediments and formerly glaciated terrain on, and surrounding, the continent can inform us about past ice-sheet dynamics. The volume also takes a historical view on developments leading to current knowledge, examines active ice-sheet processes, and points the way forward on how geophysics can advance quantitative understanding of Antarctic ice-sheet behaviour.
Flight to the South Pole
Flight to the South Pole - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Flight to the South Pole write by . This book was released on 1979. Flight to the South Pole available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Exploration
Exploration - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Exploration write by Greg Reid. This book was released on 2005. Exploration available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Discusses the adventures, successes, and disasters of early explorers, scientists, sealers, and whalers, and examines the main issues relating to modern Antarctic exploration as it relates to territory, scientific bases, tourism, pollution, and how it is all managed.
Innocents on the Ice
Innocents on the Ice - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Innocents on the Ice write by John C. Behrendt. This book was released on 2013-12-01. Innocents on the Ice available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Adventures in the Antarctic only happen when someone makes a mistake.” —From the Preface In 1956, John C. Behrendt had just earned his master’s degree in geophysics and obtained a position as an assistant seismologist in the International Geophysical Year glaciological program. He sailed from Davisville, Rhode Island to spend eighteen months in Antarctica with the IGY expedition as part of a U.S. Navy-supported scientific expedition to establish Ellsworth Station on the Filchner Ice Shelf. Innocents on the Ice is a memoir based on Behrendt’s handwritten journals, looking back on his daily entries describing his life and activities on the most isolated of the seven U.S. Antarctic stations. Nine civilians and thirty Navy men lived beneath the snow together, and intense personal conflicts arose during the dark Antarctic winter of 1957. Little outside contact was available to ease the tension, with no mail delivery and only occasional radio contact with families back home. The author describes the emotional stress of the living situation, along with details of his parties’ explorations of the Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf system during the summers of 1957 and 1958. Along the hazardous 1,300-mile traverse in two Sno-Cats, the field party measured ice thickness and snow accumulation as part of an international effort to determine the balance of the Antarctic ice sheet, and made the first geological observations of the spectacular Dufek Massif in the then-unexplored Pensacola Mountains. Behrendt also draws upon his forty years of continual participation in Antarctic research to explain the changes in scientific activities and environmental awareness in Antarctica today. Including photos, maps, and a glossary identifying various forms of ice, Innocents on the Ice is a fascinating combination of the diary of a young graduate student and the reflections of the accomplished scientist he became.
Antarctica
Antarctica - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Antarctica write by Paul Simpson-Housley. This book was released on 2002-03-11. Antarctica available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A scene so wildly and awfully desolate...it cannot fail to impress me with gloomy thoughts" - so Scott perceived the stark Antarctic landscape in 1905. Antarctica traces images of the continent from early invented maps of Terra Australis Incognita up to Amundsen's arrival at 90 degrees South. Approaching Antarctica from sea and then land, the book analyses the differing perceptions of beauty and terror experienced by explorers, the stories they brought back and the power of new images refashioned at home.
