Traces of the Ice Age

Landscape Forms in Central Europe

AvWolfgang Fraedrich

Häftad, Engelska, 2024

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At present, we have been living in an ice age for around 2.5 million years, a geological epoch in which there is ice on Earth and in which the curve of the global mean temperature is subject to significant fluctuations (current trend: temperature increase).

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Utgivningsdatum:2024-06-03
Mått:155 x 235 x 12 mm
Vikt:268 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:151
Förlag:Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG
ISBN:9783662658888
Originaltitel:Spuren der Eiszeit

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Wolfgang Fraedrich teaches geology, geography and media technology education at a Hamburg secondary school. He is the author of numerous textbooks and non-fiction books and has been co-editor of the journal geographie heute for several decades, with well over 200 publications in the specialist journal sector alone. Through numerous excursions with adults and various research trips with school groups as part of the supervision at Jugend forscht, he has become acquainted with the most diverse corners of the earth. In addition to volcanism and the formation of mountain landscapes, glacial regions play a particularly important role.

Innehållsförteckning

Searching for traces on our doorstep.- All around the glacier.- Distribution of ice and cold regions.- Glaciations during the geological past.- Glaciers shape landscapes.- The influence of glacial meltwater.- Shaping shapes away from glaciated areas.- Glaciers and sea level.- The next cold period is sure to come.