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glaciology
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glaciology

Scientific discipline concerned with all aspects of ice on landmasses. It deals with the structure and properties of glacier ice, its formation and distribution, the dynamics of ice flow, and the interactions of ice accumulations with climate. Glaciological research is conducted in a variety of ways, including radar sounding, boreholes, lateral tunnels, and remote sensing with satellite-borne infrared and multispectral scanners.



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The general thinking until very recently was that ice sheets don't react very quickly to climate," says Martin Truffer, a glaciologist at the University of Alaska in Fairbanks.
Tad Pfeffer, a glaciologist at the University of Colorado at Boulder.
Government, and who has made more than twenty-five polar expeditions during his distinguished career as a glaciologist) writes with personal expertise because he was the cook and glaciologist on the trip that saw ten naive young Birmingham men venturing north to the nearly uninhabited, ice-covered island of Spitsbergen in 1951.
 
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