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The Glaciers of Equatorial East Africa [electronic resource] /
1. Introduction -- 2. The Environmental Setting -- 2.1. Physiographic Structure -- 2.2. Atmospheric Circulation and Climate -- 2.3. Vegetation -- 2.4. Subnival Soil Forms -- 2.5. Lake Level Variations -- 3. Pleistocene and Early Holocene Glaciations -- 3.1. Kilimanjaro -- 3.2. Ruwenzori -- 3.3. Mount Kenya -- 3.4. Aberdares -- 3.5. Mount Elgon -- 3.6. Ethiopia -- 3.7. The Saharan Uplands -- 3.8. Southern Africa -- 3.9. Synthesis -- 4. The Recent Glaciation -- 4.1. Kilimanjaro -- 4.2. Ruwenzori -- 4.3. Mount Kenya -- 4.4. Glaciological Studies -- 4.5. Synthesis -- 5. Lewis Glacier, Mount Kenya -- 5.1. Design of the Field Program -- 5.2. Morphology -- 5.3. Kinematics -- 5.4. Mass and Heat Budget -- 5.5. Ice Stratigraphy and Cores -- 5.6. Long-Term Climatic Forcing and Glacier Response -- 6. East African Glaciers and the Global Tropics -- 6.1. Pleistocene and Early Holocene Variations -- 6.2. The Recent Glaciation -- 6.3. Spatial Patterns of Ice Equilibrium Elevation -- 6.4. Lewis Glacier -- 6.5. Glacier-Climate Relationships -- 6.6. Recommendations -- Summary -- Abstract -- of Chapters -- APPENDIX 1 : List of Topographic Maps, Air Photographs, and Satellite Imagery -- APPENDIX 2 : List of Historical Photographs and Drawings -- APPENDIX 3: Data Supplied to World Glacier Inventory -- Author Index.
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| Format: | Texto biblioteca |
| Language: | eng |
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Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer,
1984
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| Subjects: | Earth sciences., Hydrogeology., Earth Sciences., |
| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-6251-4 |
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| Summary: | 1. Introduction -- 2. The Environmental Setting -- 2.1. Physiographic Structure -- 2.2. Atmospheric Circulation and Climate -- 2.3. Vegetation -- 2.4. Subnival Soil Forms -- 2.5. Lake Level Variations -- 3. Pleistocene and Early Holocene Glaciations -- 3.1. Kilimanjaro -- 3.2. Ruwenzori -- 3.3. Mount Kenya -- 3.4. Aberdares -- 3.5. Mount Elgon -- 3.6. Ethiopia -- 3.7. The Saharan Uplands -- 3.8. Southern Africa -- 3.9. Synthesis -- 4. The Recent Glaciation -- 4.1. Kilimanjaro -- 4.2. Ruwenzori -- 4.3. Mount Kenya -- 4.4. Glaciological Studies -- 4.5. Synthesis -- 5. Lewis Glacier, Mount Kenya -- 5.1. Design of the Field Program -- 5.2. Morphology -- 5.3. Kinematics -- 5.4. Mass and Heat Budget -- 5.5. Ice Stratigraphy and Cores -- 5.6. Long-Term Climatic Forcing and Glacier Response -- 6. East African Glaciers and the Global Tropics -- 6.1. Pleistocene and Early Holocene Variations -- 6.2. The Recent Glaciation -- 6.3. Spatial Patterns of Ice Equilibrium Elevation -- 6.4. Lewis Glacier -- 6.5. Glacier-Climate Relationships -- 6.6. Recommendations -- Summary -- Abstract -- of Chapters -- APPENDIX 1 : List of Topographic Maps, Air Photographs, and Satellite Imagery -- APPENDIX 2 : List of Historical Photographs and Drawings -- APPENDIX 3: Data Supplied to World Glacier Inventory -- Author Index. |
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