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Text or Reference Books on Glacial Geology
J.S. Aber, D. G. Croot, and M.M. Fenton (1989) Glaciotectonic
Landforms and Structures, Kluwer Academic Publishers
in SUNY Stony Brook Science & Engineering Library (GB 581 A24)
B.G. Anderson, H.W. Borns, Jr. (1994) The Ice Age
World, Scandinavian University Press 1994, Distributed by Oxford University
Press
in SUNY Stony Brook Science & Engineering Library (XQE 696 A53) [This book
has excellent illustrations.]
D.I. Benn and D.J.A. Evans (1998) Glaciers and
Glaciation, Arnold
in SUNY Stony Brook Science & Engineering Library (XGB2403.2 B46 1998)
M.R. Bennett and N.F. Glasser (1996) Glacial Geology of
Ice Sheets and Landforms, Wiley
in SUNY Stony Brook Science & Engineering Library (GB 581 B45)
J. Ehlers (1996) Quaternary and Glacial Geology
Wiley
in SUNY Stony Brook Science & Engineering Library (QE 696 E2813)
M.J. Hambrey Glaciers
in SUNY Stony Brook Science & Engineering Library (GB2403.2 H36)
M. J. Hambrey (1994) Glacial Environments, Univ.
British Columbia
in SUNY Stony Brook Science & Engineering Library (GB2403.2 .H358)
I.P. Martini, M.E. Brookfield, S. Sadura (2001) Glacial
Geomorphology and Geology, Prentice Hall, in SUNY Stony Brook Science and
Engineering Library (GB2403.2 M37)
J. Menzies (1995) Modern glacial environments :
processes, dynamics, and sediments
in SUNY Stony Brook Science & Engineering Library (GB2403.2 .M632)
J. Menzies (1996) Past glacial environments : sediments,
forms and techniques
in SUNY Stony Brook Science & Engineering Library
J. Menzies (2002) Modern and Past Glacial
Environments: A Revised Student edition. Butterworth Heinemann in SUNY
Stony Brook Science and Engineering Library (GB2403.2 M632)
J.J.M. van Der Meer Ed. (1987) Tills and Glacial
Tectonics AA Balkema
in SUNY Stony Brook Science & Engineering Library (QE 579 I56)
A Few Web Sites describing glaciers and related topics
Information about glaciers, glacier processes,
glacier landforms and glacial
deposits
Glossary
of Glacial Terms
Glaciers and Glaciology A hypertext for the appreciation of
glaciers, and how they work Projects by students at Montana State
University - Bozeman.
All About Glaciers . a glacier site with something for everyone from glaciologists to grade school students
maintained by the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) which is an information and referral center supporting polar and cryospheric research.
Glaciers Rivers of Ice
What is a glacier? How they form, the composition and different types of glacier. Where the world's glaciers are found. Glaciers and global warming. Many facts about glaciers.
Monitoring
Glaciers to Watch Global Change be sure to turn glossary on.
Photos of glaciers and glacial features
Glacier Image Database
at the University of Cincinnati provides a large variety of photographic images
showing glaciers, glacial process and glacial landforms.
Air Photo Views of the Effects of The Iceland Flood
caused by melting of ice by a volcano under a glacier
Peter Knight’s Photographs of
Landscapes and Glaciers a wide variety of photos
Climate history emphasizing the Pleistocene
What do scientists mean when they refer to THE Ice Age?
American Museum of Natural History Gives table of glacial and interglacial
intervals.
ES 331 Ice Age Environments
"A course at Emporia State University, Kansas, An introduction to geology, landscapes, glaciers, climate, and biology of the ice ages. The relationship of ice age events to modern
environments, the nature of climatic and environmental change, and the role of man."
The Paleoclimate Record and Climate Models
University of Michigan a very good description of how the climate has changed
and possible explanations for the changes.
Regional Information about glaciers, glacial features glacial research
Some of the following may give a more detailed insight into glacial processes
and features
Quaternary Research at the Department of Geology & Geophysics, UW-Madison
Glaciers and the Glacial Ages
(Charlotte, the Vermont Whale) a brief description of glaciers and how they
affected Vermont.
Glaciers and Glaciations - Ice Sheets and Glacial Lakes
USGS site describing glaciers and glacial features with emphasis on northwestern
USA
Understanding Glaciers
of Glacier Bay, Alaska A NASA site with nice images and some interesting
videos.
Geomorphological
Mapping by Robert S. Hayden
Hart, J.K. (1996)
Subglacial deformation associated with a rigid bed environment,
Aberdaron, North Wales. Glacial Geology and Geomorphology,
List of publications including subglacial meltwater channel tunnels in Canada
North American Glaciotectonic Maps,
Information regarding glaciotectonic features in North America http://www.emporia.edu/earthsci/gage/naglatec.htm
Web Resources Compiled For Terrain Modeling
Old site but some links still work.
References cited or directly pertinent to this Web Site
A Primer on Appalachian Structural Geology, This site was created from materials developed over the past two decades by Lynn S. Fichter.
http://csmres.jmu.edu/geollab/vageol/vahist/struprimer.html
The
Atlantic Coastal Plain, Phil Stoffer and Paula Messina CUNY, Earth & Environmental Science, Ph.D. Program, Hunter College, Department of Geography
and Brooklyn College, Department of Geology, http://www.geo.hunter.cuny.edu/bight/coastal.html
Bibliography of
Glaciotectonic References INQUA Commission on Glaciation, http://www.geospectra.net/glatec_biblio/index.htm
Bibliography of Long Island Geology and
Hydrology, http://pbisotopes.ess.sunysb.edu/bib/ligeobib.html
Evidence of Glaciotectonic Phenomena in a North Shore Coastal Bluff at
Nissequogue, Long Island, New York, Linda Selvaggio Glenn A. Richard,
http://www.geo.sunysb.edu/lig/Conferences/Abstracts99/Selvaggio/Selvaggio_MS.htm
Geologic History of Long Island Sound,
Ralph Lewis, Geologist, Connecticut Geological and Natural History Survey,
Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection, http://camel2.conncoll.edu/ccrec/greennet/arbo/publications/34/CHP1.HTM
Glaciotectonic Processes And Glacigenic Sediments On Eastern Long Island, Elliot Klein and Dan Davis,
http://www.geo.sunysb.edu/lig/Conferences/Abstracts99/klein/Klein_MS.htm
Long Island
Our Story, How the land was formed, Newsday, http://www.lihistory.com/1/chap1cov.htm
Overview of New York Geology
Adapted From: Educational Leaflet 33 by William B. Rogers, Yngvar W.
Isachsen, Timothy D. Mock, and Richard E. Nyahay http://gretchen.geo.rpi.edu/roecker/nys/nys_edu.pamphlet.html
"Studying Exposed Sections on Long Island: The Ground Truth Can Tell Us a Lot about the Ground", William J. Meyers,
Port Jefferson Geomorphology, D. Mulch and G.N. Hanson,
References in Journals and Books
Aber J.S., Croot D.G., and Fenton M.M. (1989) Glaciotectonic
Landforms and Structures, Kluwer Academic
Publishers
Fuller, M.L., (1914) The Geology of Long Island New York, USGS
Prof. Paper 82, 231 p.
Gustavson, T.C. and Boothroyd, J.C. (1987) A depositional model
for outwash, sediment sources, and hydrological characteristics, Malaspina
Glacier, Alaska: A modern analog of the southeastern margin of the Laurentide
Ice Sheet, Geol. Soc. Am. 99, 187-200.
Koteff, C. and Pessl, F. Jr. Systematic ice retreat in New
England (1981) Systematic ice retreat in New England, US Geol. Surv. Prof. Paper
1179, 20 p.
Lewis, R.S. and Stone, J.R, (1991) Late Quaternary stratigraphy
and depositional history of the Long Island Sound basin: Connecticut and New
York, J. Coastal Res., 11, 1-23.
Mather, W.W. (1843) Geology of New York, pt. 1
Merrill, (1886) On the geology of Long Island,
Mills, H.C. and Wells, P.D. (1974) Ice-shove deformation and
glacial stratigraphy of Port Washington, Long Island, New York, Geol. Soc. Am.
Bull. 85. 367-364
'O Cofaigh, C (1996) Tunnel Valley genesis, Progress in Physical Geology, 20, 1-19
Oldale, R.N. and O'Hara, C.J. (1984) Glaciotectonic origin of
the Massachusetts coastal end moraines and a fluctuating late Wisconsin ice
margin, Geo. Soc. Am. Bull. 95, 61-74.
Piotrowski, J. A. (1997)
Subglacial hydrology in northwestern Germany during last glaciation: groundwater flow, tunnel valleys, and hydrological cycles. Quaternary Science
Reviews, 16, 169-185
Piotrowski, J. A. (1997)
Subglacial groundwater flow during the last glaciation in northwestern Germany. Sedimentary Geology 111, 217-224
Piotrowski, J. A. (1997)
Subglacial environments - an introduction.- In: J.A. Piotrowski (Ed.): Subglacial Environments. Sedimentary Geology special issue 111, 1-7
Sirkin, L. (1976) Block Island, Rhode Island: Evidence of
fluctuation of the late Pleistocene ice margin, Geol. Soc. Am. Bull. 87,
574-580.
Sirkin, L. (1986) Pleistocene Stratigraphy of Long Island, New
York, ed. D.H. Cadwell, The Wisconsinan Stage of the First Geologic District, Eastern New
York: New York State Museum Bulletin Number 455, p.6-21.
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