Glaciers and Glacial Erosion pdf

Clifford Embleton (11 May 1931 – 4 July 1994) was a British geomorphologist. He was born in Bromborough at that time in Cheshire. He was the son of Arthur Thomas Embleton (1895-1954), a shipping clerk, and Constance Fitzgerald (1896–1948). He was educated at Birkenhead School and won an open exhibition at St John's College, Cambridge to read geography. He graduated in 1953 having won the Philip Lake Prize. His doctoral thesis in 1956 was on the glacial landforms of north Wales.
His research on glaciation in Wales and Norway led to the publication of a classic text on the subject, 'Geomorphology, Glacial and Periglacial' with Cuchlaine King, published by Hodder & Stoughton in May 1968, ISBN 0713153776 which was later substantially revised in 1975. He became a lecturer and then senior lecturer at Birkbeck College, London and University College, London and became a professor at King's College, London in 1982. He published 75 academic papers and books on glaciation, geomorphology in Europe, geomorphological hazards and a geographical study of Africa.

Glaciers and Glacial Erosion pdf by Clifford Embleton

THE movement of glaciers is a phenomenon that has been known for more than four centuries, and the fact that ice in the world once more than four centuries, and the fact that ice in the world once covered areas vastly greater than it does at present has been widely accepted for over 100 years. Gradually, it has come to be recognised that moving ice is one of the major sculptors of the earth's surface; indeed, evidence is accumulating to suggest that, quantitatively, may be the most potent agent of terrestrial erosion. The papers and extracts in this anthology have been selected to span the period beginning with some of the earliest pioneer investigations into glacier movement and glacier erosion processes, and leading up to the re-search of the last two decades in which great advances in our know-ledge of those processes have been achieved.