UID:
almahu_9948601413302882
Format:
XXIV, 353 p.
,
online resource.
Edition:
1st ed. 1984.
ISBN:
9789400962514
Series Statement:
Solid Earth Sciences Library ; 2
Note:
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.
In:
Springer Nature eBook
Additional Edition:
Printed edition: ISBN 9789400962538
Additional Edition:
Printed edition: ISBN 9789400962521
Additional Edition:
Printed edition: ISBN 9789027715722
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1007/978-94-009-6251-4
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-6251-4
