| PREFACE | XI | ||
| PART ONE THE WORLD OF ICE:PAST AND PRESENT | 1 | ||
| Chapter 1 The Ice on Our Planet | 3 | ||
| Snow and Ice: A Multifaceted World | 3 | ||
| Mountain Glaciers and Ice Caps | 5 | ||
| Polar Regions: The Omnipresence of the White Planet | 7 | ||
| Greenland, Antarctica, and Ice Shelves | 10 | ||
| Ice: An Agent and Indicator of Climate Change | 14 | ||
| The White Planet and Sea Levels | 16 | ||
| Chapter 2 From Exploration to Scientific Observation | 18 | ||
| The Flow of Mountain Glaciers | 19 | ||
| Mass Balance: The Health of a Glacier | 21 | ||
| The Arctic Ocean in the Time of the Explorers | 23 | ||
| The Arctic Ocean: Vulnerable Ice | 25 | ||
| Greenland: An Island Inhabited for Millennia | 28 | ||
| Greenland: An Increasingly Negative Mass Balance | 28 | ||
| Antarctica: A Much More Recent Exploration | 31 | ||
| Antarctica: A Long Uncertain Mass Balance | 34 | ||
| Chapter 3 Ice through the Ages | 37 | ||
| The Time of the Pioneers | 37 | ||
| Ice of Long Ago | 40 | ||
| Glaciations of the Quaternary and Astronomic Theory | 46 | ||
| PART TWO POLAR ICE: AMAZING ARCHIVES | 51 | ||
| Chapter 4 Reconstructing the Climates of the Past | 53 | ||
| The Round of Isotopes | 54 | ||
| Going Back in Time | 57 | ||
| The Recent Period | 57 | ||
| The Distant Past | 60 | ||
| Paleoceanography | 61 | ||
| Continental Archives | 62 | ||
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Publication information:
Book title: The White Planet: The Evolution and Future of Our Frozen World.
Contributors: Jean Jouzel - Author, Claude Lorius - Author, Dominique Raynaud - Author, Teresa Lavender Fagan - Translator.
Publisher: Princeton University Press.
Place of publication: Princeton, NJ.
Publication year: 2013.
Page number: vii.
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