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The land beneath the ice : the pioneering years of radar exploration in Antarctica /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Drewry, D. J. (Author)
Corporate Author: Walter de Gruyter & Co
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2023]
Subjects:
Radar in glaciology.
Glaciology > Antarctica.
Geophysics > Antarctica.
Geology > Antarctica.
NATURE / Ecosystems & Habitats / Polar Regions.
SCIENCE / Physics / Geophysics.
Geology.
Geophysics.
Glaciology.
Antarctica.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • The Antarctic Ice Sheet Puzzle
  • Sounding through the Ice
  • The Advent of Radio-Echo Sounding
  • Flight into the Unknown: Long-Range Antarctic Campaigns Commence
  • The Second Antarctic Season 1969-70: A Task for Hercules
  • Review and New Plans
  • The Continental Survey Begins: A Land Emerges
  • New Impetus
  • 1974-75: Radio-Echo Sounding Comes of Age
  • Data, Research, and Politics
  • Changing Planes
  • The Final Season 1978-79
  • The Axe Falls
  • The Antarctic Folio
  • The Last Push
  • The Aftermath
  • Reflections.