To see accurate pricing, please choose your delivery country.
 
 
United States
£ GBP
All Shops

British Wildlife

8 issues per year 84 pages per issue Subscription only

British Wildlife is the leading natural history magazine in the UK, providing essential reading for both enthusiast and professional naturalists and wildlife conservationists. Published eight times a year, British Wildlife bridges the gap between popular writing and scientific literature through a combination of long-form articles, regular columns and reports, book reviews and letters.

Subscriptions from £33 per year

Conservation Land Management

4 issues per year 44 pages per issue Subscription only

Conservation Land Management (CLM) is a quarterly magazine that is widely regarded as essential reading for all who are involved in land management for nature conservation, across the British Isles. CLM includes long-form articles, events listings, publication reviews, new product information and updates, reports of conferences and letters.

Subscriptions from £26 per year
Academic & Professional Books  Palaeontology  Palaeoclimatology

Spitsbergen Push Moraines

Edited By: JJM van der Meer
212 pages, b&w illus
Publisher: Elsevier
Spitsbergen Push Moraines
Click to have a closer look
  • Spitsbergen Push Moraines ISBN: 9780444515445 Hardback Apr 2004 Not in stock: Usually dispatched within 2-3 weeks
    £150.00
    #146267
Price: £150.00
About this book Contents Customer reviews Related titles

About this 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 now two papers have been added that analyse two particular examples, Holmströmbreen and Sefströmbreen. The two examples are geographically close together, but reflect two completely different settings: terrestrial Holmströmbreen and tidewater Sefströmbreen.

Since a few years we know of the De Geer Archive, a collection of glass negatives of Spitsbergen, relating to De Geer's expeditions between 1882 and 1910. The negatives have only emerged recently and a collection of prints relating to Holmströmbreen and Sefströmbreen is included here. Together with a third paper incorporated in the book, this time an evaluation of De Geer's photos and maps of the Sefströmbreen surge, this material shows the importance of incorporating historical documentation in our studies.

Contents

1. Introduction. 2. Glaciological and geological results of the Hamburg Spitsbergen-expedition of 1927. 3. The test of time. 4. The De Geer archive in Stockholm exemplified by the documentation on a late-nineteenth century glacier surge in Spitsbergen. 5. Till and moraine emplacement in a deforming bed surge - an example from a marine environment. 6. The sedimentary and structural evolution of a recent push moraine complex: Holmstrombreen, Spitsbergen. 7. De Geer: Early observations on Holmstrombreen, Sefstrombreen and Coraholmen.

Customer Reviews

Edited By: JJM van der Meer
212 pages, b&w illus
Publisher: Elsevier
Media reviews
...this book is a valuable addition to the range of texts dealing with glaciers and their sedimentary products. Japp van der Meer is to be congratulated for pulling toether large amounts of information from these disparate sources into a well-structured, well illustrated and readable text. -Neil Glasser, Centre for Glaciology, Institute of Geography and Earth Sciences, University of Wales, in QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS 2005 "this is a lovely book that will be sought out by every devotee of Spitsbergen's wonderful glacial landscape. I hope that it helps enhance Karl Gripp's reputation as one of the pioneers of glacial geology. His 1929 paper is something very special and the glacial community has much to thank Jaap van der Meer for making it more widely available. BOREAS, 2005
Current promotions
New and Forthcoming BooksNHBS Moth TrapBritish Wildlife MagazineBuyers Guides