Frozen Secrets: Antarctica Revealed
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Sally M. Walker
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- File Size: 13.4 MB
- Book Language: English
- Total Page Count: 112
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Frozen Secrets: Antarctica Revealed Digital Book
Frozen Secrets: Antarctica Revealed is a digital PDF book by Sally M. Walker about Antarctica, its extreme environment, and the research conducted there. This edition is available as an instant download.
The book follows Antarctic exploration from early ideas about the unknown southern land to contemporary research stations. It combines scientific subjects with accounts of the challenges faced by explorers and researchers.
Readers can examine the continent’s ice, hidden landscape, fossils, oceans, and atmospheric clues in a clear, structured introduction to Antarctic science.
Book Overview
Sally M. Walker presents Antarctica as a place of historical exploration and continuing scientific discovery. Frozen Secrets: Antarctica Revealed discusses the continent’s severe conditions, the formation and movement of ice, the geology beneath the ice, Antarctic fossils, and evidence preserved in frozen air bubbles.
The chapters move from gaining a foothold on Antarctica to studying ice, bedrock, valleys, water, fossils, dinosaurs, and future environmental questions. The work is classified in the Library of Congress data as juvenile literature about Antarctica.
What You’ll Discover Inside
- The ancient concept of Terra Australis Incognita and the history of Antarctic exploration.
- The formation, spread, movement, and floating sections of Antarctic ice.
- Maps, bedrock, valleys, dry-valley water, and underwater research beneath the ice.
- Antarctic fossils, dinosaurs, and evidence of the continent’s distant past.
- Air trapped in frozen bubbles and other clues studied by scientists.
- The relationship between Antarctica and Earth’s oceans.
- A glossary, source notes, selected bibliography, further reading and websites, and an index.
Why This Book Matters
Antarctica’s remote conditions make scientific work difficult, yet the continent preserves evidence about Earth’s past and present. This book introduces the expeditions and research that have helped build knowledge about polar ice, ancient rock, fossils, oceans, and atmospheric history.
Its combination of exploration history and Earth science makes it a useful digital reference for readers learning about Antarctica and the work carried out in one of the harshest environments on Earth.
Book Details
| Title | Frozen secrets : Antarctica revealed |
|---|---|
| Author | Walker, Sally M |
| Format | |
| File Type | |
| File Size | 13.4 MB |
| File Size Bytes | 14072256 |
| Language | English |
| Pages | 112 |
| ISBN | 978-1-58013-607-5 |
| Publication Year | 2010 |
| Copyright | Copyright © 2010 by Sally M. Walker |
| Publisher | Carolrhoda Books, a division of Lerner Publishing Group, Inc. |
| Publisher Address | 241 First Avenue North, Minneapolis, MN 55401 U.S.A. |
| Binding | Reinforced binding |
| Library of Congress Classification | G863.W35 2010 |
| Dewey Decimal Classification | 919.8’9—dc22 |
| Library of Congress Control Number | 2009034282 |
| Cataloging Note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Website | www.lernerbooks.com |
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Verified Bibliographic Details
| Subject | Antarctica—Juvenile literature. |
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| Copyright Notice | All rights reserved. International copyright secured. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means—electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise—without the prior written permission of Lerner Publishing Group, Inc., except for the inclusion of brief quotations in an acknowledged review. |
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