The land beneath the ice : the pioneering years of radar exploration in Antarctica
A wondrous story of scientific endeavor - probing the great ice sheets of Antarctica. From the moment explorers set foot on the ice of Antarctica in the early nineteenth century, they desired to learn what lay beneath. David J. Drewry provides an insider's account of the ambitious and often haz...
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| Formaat: | Livre numérique |
| Taal: | Anglais |
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Princeton ; Oxford :
Princeton University Press
2023.
Paris : Cyberlibris |
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| Online toegang: | Accès Université Orléans et IFPM |
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| Autres localisations: | Voir dans le Sudoc |
| Edition sous un autre format: | • The land beneath the ice, the pioneering years of radar exploration in Antarctica, David J. Drewry, 2023, Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1 vol. (XXXI-409 p.), 978-0-691-23791-6 |
Inhoudsopgave:
- 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