- 1979 First Australian edition. 256 pages
- Published by The Jacaranda Press. Australia
- Hardcover with dust jacket. Blue Boards.
- Very good condition. Minor fading and shelf wear to dust jacket. Small owner stamp on free front end paper.
Earth Under the Ice Ages. Illustrated and Indexed.
We live during an ice age, one that began at least two million years ago and may last for two million years more. The last glacial period of this ice age, when some thirty per cent of the Earth's land area was ice-covered ended about ten thousand years ago, and we are currently enjoying the warmth of an interglacial period: this situation may not last long, for the hottest time of this interglacial passed five thousand years ago and so it would seem that we are heading towards a new period of glaciation.
Today, about ten per cent of the Earth's land area is covered by ice and about seventy-five per cent of our planet's fresh water is frozen.
This is the first book to examine the effects of the ice ages which have occurred on Planet Earth since the beginning of geological time. Our guides to the winters of the world are all internationally recognized authorities on glaciation and they effects of ice.
They show us why ice ages occur; how ice ages are structured, with cold glacials alternating with warmer interglacials; how ice alters the surface of the land through the processes of erosion and deposition; how world sea-level and world climate are affected by the waxing and waning of the great ice sheets; and how the life of this planet has been forced to adapt, time and again, to a thick and extensive cover of glacial ice. Finally the book uses the evidence of past ice ages to predict future climatic events.
There is no doubt that the ice will return again.
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