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MARC recordIce: the nature, the history, and the uses of an astonishing substance / Mariana Gosnell.
| Title: | Ice: the nature, the history, and the uses of an astonishing substance / Mariana Gosnell. |
| Author(s): | Gosnell, Mariana. |
| Date: | 2006 c. 2005. |
| Publisher: | New York: Alfred A. Knopf |
| Abstract: | Non-technical but wide-ranging, informative and accessible account of ice. Covers developing understanding of physical properties of ice and its place in history of science; lake, river, sea, and artificial ice, glaciers from Alps to Antarctica, including surging glaciers; ice coring and associated climatology; ice ages, icebergs, frost, permafrost, ice as environment for plants, animals and humans, recreational uses of ice, ice as construction material, in atmosphere, as source of life on Earth via comets, and elsewhere in solar system. |
| Keywords: | 551.32 -- Glaciology. 551.322 -- Ice and snow. 551.324 -- Land ice. 551.326 -- Floating ice. 551.58 -- Climatology. 551.326.8 -- Ice on inland waters. 551.326.6 -- Icebergs. 551.324.65 -- Land ice, surges and catastrophic changes. 551.345 -- Permafrost. Cryopedology. 551.336 -- Ice ages. 551.321.2 -- Snow and ice, methods of sampling, excavating, drilling, etc. 54 -- Chemistry. 53 -- Physics. 548 -- Crystallography. 57 -- Biology. 52 -- Astronomy. 523.43 -- Mars. 523.64 -- Comets. 523.481 -- Neptune. 796.9 -- Sports, winter. 624.147 -- Ice and snow as foundation and engineering materials. 502 -- Environmental issues. 62(211) -- Engineering in cold regions. 612.592 -- Cold climates, physiological effects. 574.2.043/.045 -- Organisms, influence of physical environment. E2 -- Glaciology: general. (*2) -- Polar regions. (*7) -- Antarctic regions. (211) -- Cold Regions in general. |
| Location(s): | SCO: SPRI-SHF: 551.322 |
| ISBN: | 0679426086 |
| SPRI record no.: | 174317 |
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