835 pages, colour & b/w photos, colour & b/w illustrations, maps
Past Glacial Environments, Second Edition, presents a revised and updated version of the very successful first edition of Menzies' book, covering a breadth of topics with a focus on the recognition and analysis of former glacial environments, including the pre-Quaternary glaciations. Past Glacial Environments is made up of chapters written by various geological experts from across the world, with the editor's expertise and experience bringing the chapters together.
This new and updated volume includes at least 45% new material, plus five new chapters, including a section on techniques and methods. Additionally the new edition is in full color and features a large collection of photographs, line diagrams, and tables and includes examples of glacial environments and landscapes which are drawn from a worldwide perspective. Critical knowledge boxes and case studies are included, alerting readers to critical issues and ideas while also aiding their learning.
Part I The Pre-Quaternary
2. Pre-Cambrian Glaciations & Chronology
3. Ordovician & Permo-Carboniferous Glaciations & Chronology
Part II The Quaternary
4. Quaternary Glaciations and Chronology
Part III Glacial processes
5. Subglacial Processes
6. Supraglacial Processes
7. Proglacial Processes
8. Glaciomarine Environments
9. Glacioaeolian Environments
10. Glaciolacustrine Environments
12. Glacial Stratigraphy and Lithofacies
13. Micromorphology and microtomography
16. GIS & the Glacial Environments
17. Periglacial Processes in Glacial Environments
18. Climate Change and Sea Level
Part IV Techniques & Methods
20. Ice Sheet and Glacier Modelling
22. Geotechnical aspects of glacial sediments
23. Drift Prospecting in Glaciated terrains
24. Problems and Perspectives
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John Menzies is Professor of Earth Sciences & Geography at Brock University in St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada. He obtained a B.Sc. at the University of Aberdeen and a Ph.D. at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland. He immigrated to Canada in 1977. His main areas of research and expertise lie in Glacial Geomorphology and Sedimentology with a special interest in the subglacial environment and in drumlins and microsedimentology in particular. He has established a microsedimentology lab at Brock and, over the past decades, has developed a major research interest in Glaciogenic Microsedimentology. He is the author of numerous scientific journal papers and of several books including Modern and Past Glacial Environments: A Revised Student Edition (2002). He continues to collaborate with fellow researchers, for example, in Austria, Switzerland, Germany, Poland, Denmark, UK and the USA.
Professor Jaap JM van der Meer, MSc, PhD is Professor emeritus of Physical Geography at Queen Mary College, University of London. He obtained a BSc, MSc and PhD at the University of Amsterdam where he was a Senior Lecturer until 2000, when he moved to London. He retired in 2011.Glacial processes and resulting landforms and sediments were the focus of his research. On the general level he studied sediment transfer and (temporal) storage in the glacial system: from the ice divide to the shelf edge. More specifically, there are two clear elements in his studies: the first one is the study of glacial sediments especially in thin sections and the second one is the study of dynamic struc tures, e.g. push moraines or drumlins. His research is embedded in an international network, encompassing collaboration with colleagues from Western European, North and South American countries and Australia and New Zealand and fieldwork ranging from the Arctic to the Antarctic. He set up the Centre for Micromorphology University of London, internationally a unique research facility to study glacial sediments at all microscales.