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The book deals with push moraines on Spitsbergen. The main body is a translation of the original German report by Karl Gripp on a 1927 expedition. The quality of Gripp's work is evaluated to see whether it stands the test of time. It is found that it is very modern, every year people still go i...
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Elsevier,
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| Publisher Address: | Amsterdam : |
| Publication Dates: | 2004. |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Series: |
Developments in Quaternary science,
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| Online Access: |
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/bookseries/15710866/4 |
| Summary: |
The book deals with push moraines on Spitsbergen. The main body is a translation of the original German report by Karl Gripp on a 1927 expedition. The quality of Gripp's work is evaluated to see whether it stands the test of time. It is found that it is very modern, every year people still go into the field with the same research questions. It is also found that most likely Gripp's report contains the first description of features that we now take for granted, for instance the description of looped moraines to detect surges. Push moraines are still being studied and to show where we stand no |
| Item Description: |
"Including a translation of K. Gripp: Glaciologische und geologische Ergebnisse der Hamburgischen Spitzbergen-Expedition 1927 and reprints of the De Geer Archive in Stockholm exemplified by the documentation on a late-nineteenth century glacier surge in Spitsbergen; Till and moraine emplacement in a deforming bed surge : an example from a marine environment; The sedimentary and structural evolution of a recent push moraine complex : Holmstro mbreen, Spitsbergen." Contains 2 reprinted articles by G.S. Boulton [and others]. |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (xi, 200 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780444515445 0444515445 0080541615 9780080541617 1281019100 9781281019103 |
| Index Number: | QE578 |
| CLC: | P534.63 |
| Contents: | Glaciological and geological results of the Hamburg Spitsbergen-expedition of 1927 / Karl Gripp -- The test of time / Jaap J.M. van der Meer -- The De Geer archive in Stockholm exemplified by the documentation on a late-nineteenth century glacier surge in Spitsbergen / Jaap J.M. van der Meer -- Till and moraine emplacement in a deforming bed surge : an example from a marine environment / G.S. Boulton, J.J.M. Van Der Meer, J. Hart, D. Beets, G.H.J. Ruegg, F.M. Van Der Wateren and J. Jarvis -- The sedimentary and structural evolution of a recent push moraine complex : Holmstro mbreen, Spitsber |