In the work published on September 18, 2024, we learn a lot about these environmental actors (and victims). Intended to be both popular and technical, our eyes wander between the graphs of temperature variation over 800,000 years in Antarctica, the retreat of the Mer de Glace (Mont Blanc massif) by 2100 and various questions. Did the glaciers sculpt the fjords (sections of ancient glacial valleys submerged by the sea)? Circuses and valleys? At what speeds do glaciers flow?
And the atlas does things right: the first chapter is devoted to Antarctica. “ To all credit: the largest, thickest and oldest glacial mass in the world is located in Antarctica and justifies its name as the “white continent”. This ice sheet, which was the last territory on the planet explored by man, now reveals its secrets at the cost of human surpassing, technical and scientific exploits, coordinated by polar institutes in a logic of international cooperation. »
Cap, valley, creek or wall glaciers; relationships between glacier and climate on a global scale, mass balance, it's all there! Around five major parts, this Atlas reviews the definitions, functioning, issues, roles of glaciers and their rich histories (from the birth of a glacier to its melting and the creation of new biotopes in the liberated spaces). To have in your library.
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