Principles of glacier mechanics

Roger LeB. Hooke9780521544160, 0521544165, 0521836093, 9780521836098, 9780511082191

This new edition of a successful textbook will supply advanced undergraduate and graduate students with the tools they need to understand modern glaciology. Practicing glacial geologists and glaciologists will also find the volume useful as a reference book. Relatively simple concepts are followed by more mathematically advanced chapters. Student exercises are included.