The Land Beneath The Ice

Author : David J. Drewry
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2023-01-24
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780691237923

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The Land Beneath the Ice by David J. Drewry Pdf

A wondrous story of scientific endeavor—probing the great ice sheets of Antarctica From the moment explorers set foot on the ice of Antarctica in the early nineteenth century, they desired to learn what lay beneath. David J. Drewry provides an insider’s account of the ambitious and often hazardous radar mapping expeditions that he and fellow glaciologists undertook during the height of the Cold War, when concerns about global climate change were first emerging and scientists were finally able to peer into the Antarctic ice and take its measure. In this panoramic book, Drewry charts the history and breakthrough science of radio-echo sounding, a revolutionary technique that has enabled researchers to measure the thickness and properties of ice continuously from the air—transforming our understanding of the world’s great ice sheets. To those involved in this epic fieldwork, it was evident that our planet is rapidly changing, and its future depends on the stability and behavior of these colossal ice masses. Drewry describes how bad weather, downed aircraft, and human frailty disrupt the most meticulously laid plans, and how success, built on remarkable international cooperation, can spawn institutional rivalries. The Land Beneath the Ice captures the excitement and innovative spirit of a pioneering era in Antarctic geophysical exploration, recounting its perils and scientific challenges, and showing how its discoveries are helping us to tackle environmental challenges of global significance.

Author : Rand Flem-Ath,Rose Flem-Ath
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2012-02-10
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781591438953

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Atlantis beneath the Ice by Rand Flem-Ath,Rose Flem-Ath Pdf

Scientific and mythological evidence that Antarctica was once Atlantis • Reveals how the earth’s crust shifted in 9600 BCE, dragging Atlantis into the polar zone beneath miles of Antarctic ice • Examines ancient yet highly accurate maps, including the Piri Reis map of 1513, which reveals a pre-glacial Antarctica • Shows how myths of floods and disaster from around the world all point to a common source In this completely revised and expanded edition of When the Sky Fell, Rand and Rose Flem-Ath show that 12,000 years ago vast areas of Antarctica were free from ice and home to the kingdom of Atlantis, a proposition that also elegantly solves the mysteries of ice ages and mass extinctions, the simultaneous worldwide rise of agriculture, and the source of devastating prehistoric climate change. Expanding upon Charles Hapgood’s theory of earth crust displacement, which was championed by Albert Einstein, they examine ancient yet highly accurate world maps, including the Piri Reis map of 1513, and show how the earth’s crust shifted in 9600 BCE, dragging Atlantis into the polar zone where it now lies beneath miles of Antarctic ice. From the Cherokee, Haida, and Okanagan of North America to the earliest records of Egypt, Iran, Mexico, and Japan, they reveal that ancient myths of floods, lost island paradises, and visits from advanced godlike peoples from all corners of the globe all point to the same worldwide catastrophe that resulted in Atlantis’s demise. The authors explain how the remaining Atlanteans, amid massive earthquakes and epic floods, evacuated and spread throughout the world, resulting in the birth of the first known civilizations. Including rare material from the archives of Charles Hapgood, Albert Einstein, and Dwight D. Eisenhower, the Flem-Aths explain how an earth crust displacement could happen again in the future, perhaps in correspondence with high solar activity. With new scientific, genetic, and linguistic evidence in support of Antarctica as the location of long-lost Atlantis, this updated edition convincingly shows that Atlantis was not swallowed by the sea but was entombed beneath miles of polar ice.

Author : Nina Goga,Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2017-08-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789027265463

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Maps and Mapping in Children's Literature by Nina Goga,Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer Pdf

Maps and Mapping in Children’s Literature is the first comprehensive study that investigates the representation of maps in children’s books as well as the impact of mapping on the depiction of landscapes, seascapes, and cityscapes in children’s literature. The chapters in this volume pursue a comparative approach as they represent a wide spectrum of diverse genres and national children’s literatures by examining a wealth of children’s books from Canada, Denmark, Germany, Italy, Norway, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the USA. The theoretical and methodological approaches range from literary studies, developmental psychology, maps and geography literacy, ecocriticism, historical contextualization with both new historicist and political-historical leanings, and intermediality to materialist cartographies, cultural studies, island studies, and genre studies. By this, this volume aims at embedding children’s literature in a broader field of literary and cultural studies, thus situating children’s literature research within a general context of literary theory.

Author : Geological Survey of New Jersey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Geology
ISBN : HARVARD:32044102943248

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Annual Report of the State Geologist of New Jersey for ... by Geological Survey of New Jersey Pdf

Author : New Jersey Geological Survey, 1863-1915
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Geology
ISBN : STANFORD:36105017169116

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Report of Professor George H. Cook Upon the Geological Survey of New Jersey ... by New Jersey Geological Survey, 1863-1915 Pdf

Author : New Jersey. Legislature. Senate
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1458 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Electronic
ISBN : CHI:095667083

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Journal of the ... Senate of the State of New Jersey ... by New Jersey. Legislature. Senate Pdf

Author : Geological Survey of New Jersey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 708 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Geology
ISBN : UCAL:B4170355

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Annual Report of ... State Geologist, to ... President of the Board O Managers of the Geological Survey of New Jersey for the Year ... by Geological Survey of New Jersey Pdf

Author : New Jersey. Legislature
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1454 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : New Jersey
ISBN : NYPL:33433010028789

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Documents of the ... Legislature of the State of New Jersey by New Jersey. Legislature Pdf

Author : New Jersey Geological Survey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Geology
ISBN : UOM:39015035539538

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Annual Report of the Geological Survey by New Jersey Geological Survey Pdf

Author : Geological Survey of New Jersey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Geology
ISBN : MSU:31293002655326

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Annual Report of the State Geologist for ... by Geological Survey of New Jersey Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Electronic
ISBN : MINN:31951T00025627U

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Glacial Geology by Anonim Pdf

Author : Gillen D’Arcy Wood
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2021-10-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691229041

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Land of Wondrous Cold by Gillen D’Arcy Wood Pdf

A gripping history of the polar continent, from the great discoveries of the nineteenth century to modern scientific breakthroughs Antarctica, the ice kingdom hosting the South Pole, looms large in the human imagination. The secrets of this vast frozen desert have long tempted explorers, but its brutal climate and glacial shores notoriously resist human intrusion. Land of Wondrous Cold tells a gripping story of the pioneering nineteenth-century voyages, when British, French, and American commanders raced to penetrate Antarctica’s glacial rim for unknown lands beyond. These intrepid Victorian explorers—James Ross, Dumont D’Urville, and Charles Wilkes—laid the foundation for our current understanding of Terra Australis Incognita. Today, the white continent poses new challenges, as scientists race to uncover Earth’s climate history, which is recorded in the south polar ice and ocean floor, and to monitor the increasing instability of the Antarctic ice cap, which threatens to inundate coastal cities worldwide. Interweaving the breakthrough research of the modern Ocean Drilling Program with the dramatic discovery tales of its Victorian forerunners, Gillen D’Arcy Wood describes Antarctica’s role in a planetary drama of plate tectonics, climate change, and species evolution stretching back more than thirty million years. An original, multifaceted portrait of the polar continent emerges, illuminating our profound connection to Antarctica in its past, present, and future incarnations. A deep-time history of monumental scale, Land of Wondrous Cold brings the remotest of worlds within close reach—an Antarctica vital to both planetary history and human fortunes.

Author : Alfred John Jukes-Browne
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 646 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1886
Category : Geology
ISBN : UOM:39015031081865

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The Student's Handbook of Historical Geology by Alfred John Jukes-Browne Pdf

Author : Henry S. Sharp,Karyn Sharp
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2015-06-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780803274464

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Hunting Caribou by Henry S. Sharp,Karyn Sharp Pdf

"Participant ethnography of the subsistence hunting practices of a band of Denesuline in the Northwestern Territories"--

Author : Ellen Prager
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03-02
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780226541723

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Dangerous Earth by Ellen Prager Pdf

The Earth is a beautiful and wondrous planet, but also frustratingly complex and, at times, violent: much of what has made it livable can also cause catastrophe. Volcanic eruptions create land and produce fertile, nutrient-rich soil, but they can also bury forests, fields, and entire towns under ash, mud, lava, and debris. The very forces that create and recycle Earth’s crust also spawn destructive earthquakes and tsunamis. Water and wind bring and spread life, but in hurricanes they can leave devastation in their wake. And while it is the planet’s warmth that enables life to thrive, rapidly increasing temperatures are causing sea levels to rise and weather events to become more extreme. Today, we know more than ever before about the powerful forces that can cause catastrophe, but significant questions remain. Why can’t we better predict some natural disasters? What do scientists know about them already? What do they wish they knew? In Dangerous Earth, marine scientist and science communicator Ellen Prager explores the science of investigating volcanoes, earthquakes, tsunamis, hurricanes, landslides, rip currents, and—maybe the most perilous hazard of all—climate change. Each chapter considers a specific hazard, begins with a game-changing historical event (like the 1980 eruption of Mt. St. Helens or the landfall and impacts of Hurricane Harvey), and highlights what remains unknown about these dynamic phenomena. Along the way, we hear from scientists trying to read Earth’s warning signs, pass its messages along to the rest of us, and prevent catastrophic loss. A sweeping tour of some of the most awesome forces on our planet—many tragic, yet nonetheless awe-inspiring—Dangerous Earth is an illuminating journey through the undiscovered, unresolved, and in some cases unimagined mysteries that continue to frustrate and fascinate the world’s leading scientists: the “wish-we-knews” that ignite both our curiosity and global change.