Earth and Space Sciences 203
Glaciers and Global Change
General Reading about Glaciers

(1)
Author: Sharp, Robert P. (Robert Phillip).
Title: Glaciers, by Robert P. Sharp.
Pub. Info.: Eugene, Oregon State System of Higher Education, 1960.
LC Subject: Glaciers.
Status: Natural Sciences General Stacks
551.312 Sh23g
Nice easy to read treatment of glaciers including mass budget, temperature and flow
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(2)
Author: Hambrey, M. J.
Title: Glaciers / Michael Hambrey, Jurg Alean.
Pub. Info.: Cambridge ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 1992.
LC Subject: Glaciers.
Status: Natural Sciences General Stacks
GB2403.2 .H36 1992
Many beautiful pictures of glaciers and some theory about ice flow.
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(3) 3 editions available
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Author: Paterson, W. S. B.
Title: The physics of glaciers / W.S.B. Paterson.
Pub. Info.: Oxford, OX, England ; Tarrytown, N.Y., U.S.A. : Pergamon, 1994.
LC Subject: Glaciers.
Status: Natural Sciences General Stacks
GB2403.5 .P37 1994

Author: Paterson, W. S. B.
Title: The physics of glaciers / by W.S.B. Paterson.
Pub. Info.: Oxford ; New York : Pergamon Press, 1981.
LC Subject: Glaciers.
Status: Natural Sciences General Stacks
QE576 .P36 1981
Undergraduate General Stacks
QE576 .P36 1981
Has been used for years for many courses about glaciers.
Written for the more physics-minded than Sharp or Hambrey.
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(4)
Title: Process geomorphology / Dale F. Ritter, R. Craig Kochel, Jerry R. Miller.
Pub. Info.: Dubuque, Iowa : W.C. Brown, c1995.
LC Subject: Geomorphology.
Status: Undergraduate General Stacks
GB402 .R57 1995
Chapter 9 335-362 has information on glacier flow
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(5)
Author: Post, Austin.
Title: Glacier ice [by] Austin Post and Edward R. LaChapelle.
Pub. Info.: Seattle, The Mountaineers [1971].
LC Subject: Glaciers - Pictorial-works.
Status: Natural Sciences Folio
GB2403 .P6
Undergraduate General Stacks
GB2403 .P6

This is a famous classic, written by 2 former UW faculty. It is very readable, technical but non-mathematical description of mountain glaciers today with many illuminating aerial photographs.
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(6)
Author: Ferguson, Sue A.
Title: Glaciers of North America : a field guide / Sue A. Ferguson.
Pub. Info.: Golden, Colo. : Fulcrum Pub., c1992.
LC Subject: Glaciers - North-America.
Status: Special Collections PNW
GB2412 .F47 1992 LIBRARY USE ONLY
A nice field guide with many suggestions of things to look for on glaciers and how to travel safely. Written by a former UW geophysics graduate student.
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(7)
Author: Driedger, Carolyn L.
Title: A visitor's guide to Mount Rainier glaciers / by Carolyn L Driedger ; designed by Hollyn Howard ; edited by Shirley T Moore.
Pub. Info.: Longmire, WA : Pacific Northwest National Parks and Forests Association, c1986.
LC Subject: Glaciers - Washington-State - Rainier-Mount.
Rainier-Mount-Wash.
Mount-Rainier-National-Park-Wash.
Status: Special Collections PNW
GB2425.W2 D74 1986 LIBRARY USE ONLY
A local field guide.
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