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Record #159302:
Tropical glaciers / Georg Kaser, Henry Osmaston.
Title: | Tropical glaciers / Georg Kaser, Henry Osmaston. |
Author(s): | Kaser, Georg. Osmaston, Henry. |
Date: | 2002. |
Publisher: | Cambridge: Cambridge University Press |
Abstract: | Presents theoretical and practical analysis of tropical glaciology, with climate regimes and key variables, using Rwenzori and Cordillera Blanca as examples. Discusses fluctuations of glaciers during Quaternary and subsequent to Little Ice Age, and charts these dramatic changes. Includes 1:100,000 map: Glaciers and glaciations of the Rwenzori Mountains, Uganda. |
Keywords: | 551.32 -- Glaciology. 551.324 -- Land ice. 551.324.2 -- Types of land ice. 551.324.6 -- Land ice, fluctuation. 551.336 -- Ice ages. 551.79 -- Quaternary. 551.332.56 -- Lakes, ice-dammed. Glacial lakes. Disruption of water drainage. 551.583 -- Climatic changes. E5 -- Glaciology: land ice. (67) -- Equatorial and central African states. (676.1) -- Uganda. |
Location(s): | SCO: SPRI-SHF: 551.324.2[2002] |
ISBN: | 0521633338 |
SPRI record no.: | 159302 |
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