The ice age / Jürgen Ehlers.
Ehlers, Jürgen, 1948- author.
2022
QE697
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Title The ice age / Jürgen Ehlers.
Author Ehlers, Jürgen, 1948- author.
Uniform Title Eiszeitalter. English
ISBN 9783662645901 (electronic bk.)
3662645904 (electronic bk.)
9783662645895
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-64590-1
Published Berlin, Germany : Springer, 2022.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (ix, 411 pages) : illustrations (some color)
Item Number 10.1007/978-3-662-64590-1 doi
Call Number QE697
Dewey Decimal Classification 551.7/92
Summary Nothing new from the Ice Age? Far from it! Barely ten years have passed since the first edition of this book was published, but in that time researchers around the world have developed new methods and published their findings in scientific journals. Consequently, ideas about the course of the Ice Age have changed dramatically. The sequence of the individual ice advances, the direction of ice movement and the direction of meltwater drainage are only partially known, but they can be reconstructed. This book offers in-depth information about the state of the investigations. Ice ages are the periods of the earth's history in which at least one polar region is glaciated or covered by sea ice. Thus, we are currently living in an Ice Age. The present Ice Age is also the period in which humans started to intervene in the shaping of the earth. The results are obvious. Aerial and satellite images can be used to trace the melting of glaciers, but also the decay of the Arctic permafrost, and the clearing of the Brazilian rainforest. This book is a translation of the original German 2nd edition Das Eiszeitalter by Jürgen Ehlers, published by Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature, in 2020. The translation was done with the help of artificial intelligence (machine translation by DeepL.com). A subsequent human revision was done primarily in terms of content, so that the book will read stylistically differently from a conventional translation. Springer Nature works continuously to further the development of tools for the production of books and promotes technologies to support the authors. The Author Dr. Jürgen Ehlers is a German geoscientist. Together with Prof. Philip L. Gibbard, Cambridge, he has led the project 'Extent and Chronology of Quaternary Glaciations' for the International Union for Quaternary Research, involving 170 scientists from 50 countries. Gibbard and Ehlers are among the best experts on glacial geology and were awarded the Medal of Merit of the German Quaternary Association (DEUQUA). Ehlers is the author of several books on the Quaternary (Enke and Wiley) and on the North Sea (WBG) and is also known as an author of historical crime fiction. .
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Introduction
The course of the ice age
Ice and water
Tills and terminal moraines
the traces of the glaciers
From the glacial mill to the glacial valley
Maps
where are we actually here?
How far did the glaciers reach?
Ice in the ground
the formation of the periglacial regions
Hippos on the Thames
the history of the warm periods
Sequence of deglaciation
Wind, sand and stones
the aeolian processes
What happened to the rivers?
North Sea and Baltic Sea in the ice age
Climate reconstructions and models
Man intervenes.

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