The Glaciers of Iceland A Historical, Cultural and Scientific Overview
This book is the first comprehensive overview and evaluation of the origins, history and current size and condition of all of Iceland's major glaciers (including Vatnajökull, the largest in Europe) at the beginning of the twenty-first century. It is not only illustrated with many beautiful phot...
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ftunistlouisbrus:oai:dial.uclouvain.be:ebook:105670 2023-05-15T16:46:14+02:00 The Glaciers of Iceland A Historical, Cultural and Scientific Overview Björnsson, Helgi 2017 http://hdl.handle.net/2078/ebook:105670 https://doi.org/10.2991/978-94-6239-207-6 eng eng Atlantis Press ebook:105670 http://hdl.handle.net/2078/ebook:105670 doi:10.2991/978-94-6239-207-6 urn:ISBN:9789462392076 Natural disasters Hydrogeology Earth sciences GB1001 info:eu-repo/semantics/other 2017 ftunistlouisbrus https://doi.org/10.2991/978-94-6239-207-6 2018-05-16T22:20:29Z This book is the first comprehensive overview and evaluation of the origins, history and current size and condition of all of Iceland's major glaciers (including Vatnajökull, the largest in Europe) at the beginning of the twenty-first century. It is not only illustrated with many beautiful photographs and graphs of recent statistics and scientific data, but is also a collection of historical writings and drawings from annals, sagas, folk tales, diaries, reports, stories and poems, as it presents a unique approach to the study of glaciers on an island in the North Atlantic. Balancing and comparing the world of man with the world of nature, the perceptions of art and culture with the systematic and pragmatic analyses of science, The Glaciers of Iceland present a wide spectrum of readers with a new and stimulating view of the origins, development and possible future of these massive natural phenomena, as well as the study and role of glaciology, within specific time lines and geographical locations. Icelandic glaciers the author argues could prove essential for understanding the current unsettling progress of global warming. The glaciers of Iceland, therefore, aims at presenting to a wide readership an original, historical, cultural and scientific overview of these geophysical features in Iceland while also suggesting increasingly important lessons and models for man's future interaction with the world's glaciers as a whole. Other/Unknown Material Iceland North Atlantic Vatnajökull DIAL@USL-B (Université Saint-Louis, Bruxelles) Vatnajökull ENVELOPE(-16.823,-16.823,64.420,64.420) Paris |
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This book is the first comprehensive overview and evaluation of the origins, history and current size and condition of all of Iceland's major glaciers (including Vatnajökull, the largest in Europe) at the beginning of the twenty-first century. It is not only illustrated with many beautiful photographs and graphs of recent statistics and scientific data, but is also a collection of historical writings and drawings from annals, sagas, folk tales, diaries, reports, stories and poems, as it presents a unique approach to the study of glaciers on an island in the North Atlantic. Balancing and comparing the world of man with the world of nature, the perceptions of art and culture with the systematic and pragmatic analyses of science, The Glaciers of Iceland present a wide spectrum of readers with a new and stimulating view of the origins, development and possible future of these massive natural phenomena, as well as the study and role of glaciology, within specific time lines and geographical locations. Icelandic glaciers the author argues could prove essential for understanding the current unsettling progress of global warming. The glaciers of Iceland, therefore, aims at presenting to a wide readership an original, historical, cultural and scientific overview of these geophysical features in Iceland while also suggesting increasingly important lessons and models for man's future interaction with the world's glaciers as a whole. |
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The Glaciers of Iceland A Historical, Cultural and Scientific Overview |
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The Glaciers of Iceland A Historical, Cultural and Scientific Overview |
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The Glaciers of Iceland A Historical, Cultural and Scientific Overview |
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