Characteristics of Existing Glaciers

xxiv, 301 pp. Includes black-and-white plates and diagrams. CONTENTS: Introduction; Part I. Mountain Glaciers: The Cirque and Its Recession; High Level Sculpturing of the Upland; Classification of Glaciers Based Upon Comparative Alimentation; Low Level Glacial Sculpture in Moderate Latitudes; High Latitude Glacial Sculpture; Glacial Features Due Mainly to Deposition; Part II. Arctic Glaciers: The Arctic Glacier Type; Physiography of the Continental Glacier of Greenland; Nourishment of the Greenland Inland-ice; Depletion of the Greenland Ice from Surface Melting; Discharge of Bergs from the Ice Front; Part III. Antarctic Glaciers: The Antarctic Continent and Its Sea-ice Girdle; The Marginal Shelf Ice; The Antarctic Continental Glacier Where Unconfined; The Antarctic Continental Glacier Where Behind a Mountain Rampart; The Nourishment of Antarctic Ice Masses; Afterword.