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Article: ICE IN THE OCEAN.(Review)
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- Arctic
- Article date:
- June 1, 2001
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CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 2001 Arctic Institute of North America of the University of Calgary. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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By PETER WADHAMS. Amsterdam: Gordon and Breach Science Publishers, 2000. 351 p., maps, colour and b&w illus., bib., index. Hardbound. US$67.00, 10% discount when ordered at www.gbhap.com.
Peter Wadhams has produced a well-written, concise monograph on sea ice and icebergs. Ice in the Ocean, based on a course that Wadhams taught to final-year geography students at Cambridge, is designed to show "an unashamed bias toward phenomena rather than models" (Preface, p. xi). It covers topics ranging from sea ice to pressure ridge keels, and from ice edge properties to climate change, illustrating each with a wide variety of photographs, images, and figures. Each chapter ...