Source-to-sink fluxes in undisturbed cold environments /
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| Imprint: | Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2016. |
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| Description: | xi, 408 pages ; 29 cm |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10828114 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Part I. Solute and Sedimentary Fluxes and Budgets in Changing Cold Climate Environments
- 1. Introduction to the theme
- 2. The IAG/AIG SEDIBUD (Sediment Budgets in Cold Environments) programme
- Part II. Climate Change in Cold Environments and General Implications for Contemporary Solute and Sedimentary Fluxes
- 3. The changing cryosphere - implications for solute and sedimentary fluxes in cold climate environments
- 4. Changes in vegetation cover and implications for solute and sedimentary fluxes in cold climate environments
- Part III. Solute and Sedimentary Fluxes in Sub-Arctic and Arctic Environments
- 5. Contemporary solute and sedimentary fluxes in Arctic and Sub-Arctic environments: current knowledge
- 6. The use of dendrogeomorphology to recognize the spatio-temporal distribution of snow avalanches in northern Iceland - case studies from Dalsmynni, Ljósavatnsskarð and Fnjóskadalur
- 7. A contemporary assessment of sediment and solute transfers in Kärkevagge, Swedish Lapland
- 8. Hillslope processes and related sediment fluxes on a fine-grained scree slope of Eastern Canada
- 9. Sediment and solute transport from Greenland
- 10. Measurements of bedload flux in a high Arctic environment
- 11. Solute and particulate fluxes in catchments in Spitsbergen
- 12. Sediment and solute fluxes at the Igarka field site, Russian Sub-Arctic
- 13. Variability and controls of solute and sedimentary fluxes in Sub-Arctic and Arctic environments
- Part IV. Solute and Sedimentary Fluxes in Sub-Antarctic and Antarctic Environments
- 14. Environmental impact on contemporary solute and sedimentary fluxes in Antarctica: current knowledge
- 15. Solute and solid cascade system in the Antarctic oases
- 16. Environmental controls on sediment composition and particle fluxes over the Antarctic continental shelf
- 17. Solute and sedimentary fluxes on King George Island
- 18. Dynamics of the Antarctica ice cap
- 19. Solute and sediment fluxes from rivers and streams in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica
- Part V. Solute and Sedimentary Fluxes in Alpine/Mountain Environments
- 20. Chemical denudation in partly glacierized mountain catchments of the fjord landscape in western Norway: contemporary rates, environmental controls and possible effects of climate change
- 21. Sediment delivery from headwater slope systems and relief development in steep mountain valleys in western Norway
- 22. Suspended sediment dynamics in the proglacial zone of the rapidly retreating Castle Creek Glacier, British Columbia, Canada
- 23. Sedimentary fluxes in Himalaya
- 24. Rates of slope and channel processes in the Reintal Valley, Bavarian Alps
- 25. Comparative analysis of sediment routing in two different alpine catchments
- 26. Controls and variability of solute and sedimentary fluxes in alpine/mountain environments
- Part VI. Quantitative Analysis of Solute and Sedimentary Fluxes in Cold Climate Environments
- 27. Environmental drivers, spatial variability and rates of chemical and mechanical fluvial denudation in selected glacierized and non-glacierized cold climate catchment geosystems: from coordinated field data generation to integration and modeling
- 28. Summary of key findings from Arctic, Antarctic and mountain environments
- Index
