Patrick Wu
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 660
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A collection of 31 articles on the continuing impact of the most recent ice age, primarily for graduate students in geology, but also for other interested readers. Includes perspectives from geomorphology, geodynamics, rock and ice rheology, geodesy, glaciology, oceanography, climatology, astronomy, engineering, and archaeology. After a historical perspective and overview, covers basic theory and models to calculate the Earth's deformation, ice sheets and glaciation, Earth rheology, observations and modeling sea level, glacial isostasy in terms of Earth's rotation and recent geodetic techniques, and postglacial rebound in terms of lateral heterogeneity and intraplate earthquakes. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR