Download or read book Magmatism in the McMurdo Dry Valleys Antarctica written by Bruce Marsh and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-01-31 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A unique and detailed examination of the Ferrar Magmatic System of the McMurdo Dry Valleys in Antarctica, providing insight into magmatic processes, in particular where magma originates, how it moves upwards, and how it evolves. An invaluable resource for researchers and students in magma physics, igneous petrology, volcanology, and geochemistry.
Download or read book Innocents on the Ice written by John C. Behrendt and published by University Press of Colorado. This book was released on 2013-12-01 with total page 455 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Adventures in the Antarctic only happen when someone makes a mistake.” —From the Preface In 1956, John C. Behrendt had just earned his master’s degree in geophysics and obtained a position as an assistant seismologist in the International Geophysical Year glaciological program. He sailed from Davisville, Rhode Island to spend eighteen months in Antarctica with the IGY expedition as part of a U.S. Navy-supported scientific expedition to establish Ellsworth Station on the Filchner Ice Shelf. Innocents on the Ice is a memoir based on Behrendt’s handwritten journals, looking back on his daily entries describing his life and activities on the most isolated of the seven U.S. Antarctic stations. Nine civilians and thirty Navy men lived beneath the snow together, and intense personal conflicts arose during the dark Antarctic winter of 1957. Little outside contact was available to ease the tension, with no mail delivery and only occasional radio contact with families back home. The author describes the emotional stress of the living situation, along with details of his parties’ explorations of the Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf system during the summers of 1957 and 1958. Along the hazardous 1,300-mile traverse in two Sno-Cats, the field party measured ice thickness and snow accumulation as part of an international effort to determine the balance of the Antarctic ice sheet, and made the first geological observations of the spectacular Dufek Massif in the then-unexplored Pensacola Mountains. Behrendt also draws upon his forty years of continual participation in Antarctic research to explain the changes in scientific activities and environmental awareness in Antarctica today. Including photos, maps, and a glossary identifying various forms of ice, Innocents on the Ice is a fascinating combination of the diary of a young graduate student and the reflections of the accomplished scientist he became.
Download or read book Innocents in the Dry Valleys written by Colin Bull and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1958-59 a physicist, a biologist and two undergraduate geology students from Victoria University of Wellington spent a summer examining the Dry Valleys of Victoria Land, Antarctica. This expedition, known as VUWAE 2, began what was to become an annual and very fruitful Antarctic research programme for the university over the next fifty years. These days such expeditions are coordinated by the internationally respected Victoria University Antarctic Research Centre. They cost many thousands of dollars and involve the use of highly specialised equipment and staff. Colin Bull (the physicist) and his companions, Dick Barwick, Barrie McKelvey, and Peter Webb, using transport, equipment and supplies that were mostly borrowed, begged, or, on occasion, salvaged from the Scott Base rubbish dump, managed to spend two months doing research in Antarctica for under $1000. With wry humour, Bull recounts the adventures of these four hardy and resourceful scientists, who seemed to thrive on the adverse conditions, lack of funding and battles with bureaucracy.
Download or read book Anthropocene Antarctica written by Elizabeth Leane and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-09-12 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anthropocene Antarctica offers new ways of thinking about the ‘Continent for Science and Peace’ in a time of planetary environmental change. In the Anthropocene, Antarctica has become central to the Earth’s future. Ice cores taken from its interior reveal the deep environmental history of the planet and warming ocean currents are ominously destabilising the glaciers around its edges, presaging sea-level rise in decades and centuries to come. At the same time, proliferating research stations and tourist numbers challenge stereotypes of the continent as the ‘last wilderness.’ The Anthropocene brings Antarctica nearer in thought, entangled with our everyday actions. If the Anthropocene signals the end of the idea of Nature as separate from humans, then the Antarctic, long considered the material embodiment of this idea, faces a radical reframing. Understanding the southern polar region in the twenty-first century requires contributions across the disciplinary spectrum. This collection paves the way for researchers in the Environmental Humanities, Law and Social Sciences to engage critically with the Antarctic, fostering a community of scholars who can act with natural scientists to address the globally significant environmental issues that face this vitally important part of the planet.
Download or read book Descriptions of the stranded moraines and dry valley with special reference to the recent elevation of the land bordering McMurdo Sound written by Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Innocent as Sin written by Elizabeth Lowell and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York Times bestelling queen of of romantic suspense—an author hailed as “a cut above”* returns with an exceptional thriller packed with her trademark combination of passion, danger, and intrigue Throwing himself into his painting, Rand McCee wishes the swirls of light and color can erase the memory of his beloved brother’s murder. On a scouting assignment for St. Kilda Consulting, a Manhattan-based, global business that concentrates on the shadow world where governments can’t go, Rand’s twin was shot in cold blood before Rand’s eyes. Finally coming to terms with the fact that he will never be able to find the man responsible—a mysterious figure known as “The Siberian”—Rand just wants to forget. But as he soon learns, the past won’t let him. . . . Helping a rich socialite finance an art exhibition, Arizona banker Kayla Shawn has unwittingly become entangled in a deadly web of lies and deceit involving money laundering. When her employer tries to buy her silence, Kayla knows she’s in way over her head, with only one way out: Rand. Though their attraction is instant and intense, it’s not enough to overcome their mutual suspicion. Somehow Kayla and Rand must learn to work together to unmask a terrifying enemy before they land in jail—or the grave.
Download or read book The Heart of the Antarctic Descriptions of the stranded moraines and dry valley with special reference to the recent elevation of the land bordering McMurdo Sound written by Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Innocent Espionage written by François duc de La Rochefoucauld and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 1995 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looking at England in the early months of 1785, covering twenty or even thirty miles a day and making detailed and intelligent notes at night, the two La Rochefoucauld brothers, Francois and Alexandre, and their tutor, saw landscapes still visible today; but the world of momentous industrial invention and optimism that they envied, as patriots, is one we can now only envy them for knowing and admire them for recording. Norman Scarfe presents the three documentary sources of the book (all previously unpublished) in his own spirited translation, while the many illustrations bring the travellers' experiences vividly to life. His epilogue traces the divergent attitudes of the brothers at the onset of the Revolution and beyond: the elder loyally serving Louis XVI, the younger establishing his cotton-mill on English lines, then joining the entourage of Napoleon.
Download or read book Catalog of Copyright Entries New Series written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by Copyright Office, Library of Congress. This book was released on 1935 with total page 2338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes Part 1, Books, Group 1, Nos. 1-155 (March - December, 1934)
Download or read book Food and Language written by Richard Hosking and published by Oxford Symposium. This book was released on 2010 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays on food and language from the Proceedings of the Oxford Symposium on Food and Cooking 2009.
Download or read book The Complete Writings of O Henry pseud written by O. Henry and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Tide Cracks and Sastrugi written by Graeme Connell and published by Polished Publishing Group. This book was released on 2011-09 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What makes a person pack a bag and head off into the vast white, frozen, inhospitable desert of Antarctica? Is it adventure, tales of heroism and sacrifice, science or simply because it is there? In a mix of nerve-tingling drama, history, anecdote, and the physical and emotional unknown, Graeme Connell talks about his odyssey on the continent at the bottom of the world. This is a glimpse of a small country's Antarctic activity at the tail end of the first decade of modern exploration. It is also a snapshot of a young, disillusioned small town newspaper journalist who seeks change to embrace all that life has to offer for himself, his wife and family.--Cover.
Download or read book The Valley of the Dry Bones written by Jerry B. Jenkins and published by Hachette+ORM. This book was released on 2016-05-31 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Best-selling author whose books have sold over 70 million copies pens a thrilling tale of intrigue and terrorism.
Download or read book The Complete Works of O Henry written by O. Henry and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 1416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Catalogue of Copyright Entries written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by . This book was released on 1934 with total page 1310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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