Length1h 48m
About this audiobook
Glaciers are the largest rivers on Earth and they are made of rock: a glacier is a persistent body of natural ice, dense as stone and patient as geology, flowing under its own weight through mountain valleys and, in Antarctica and Greenland, across whole continents. Born from snow that outlives the summer, they carved the scenery of a tenth of the world's land and hold most of the planet's fresh water in slow storage.
This book tells the complete story in plain, equation-free language. The opening chapters carry the substance: how snow becomes firn and then blue glacier ice, the categories from ice sheets and shelves to tidewater and mountain glaciers, how the ice age detective story was solved from erratics and scratched bedrock, and how glaciers move, from the rigid crevassed crust to the deep creep below.
Audiobook details
GenreEducation and Learning
Length1 hr 48 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateOct 22, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
2Chapter 1: What a Glacier Is
3Chapter 2: How Ice Becomes a Glacier
4Chapter 3: Reading the Landscape
5Chapter 4: How Glaciers Move
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6Chapter 5: The Bed
7Chapter 6: The Water Beneath
8Chapter 7: Surges and Quakes
9Chapter 8: The Carving Machine
10Chapter 9: What the Ice Leaves Behind
11Chapter 10: The World's Glaciers
12Chapter 11: Ice Cores and the Long Record
13Chapter 12: Glaciers Beyond Earth
14Chapter 13: The Great Retreat
15Chapter 14: What the Retreat Costs
16Chapter 15: Fun Facts and Trivia, Weighed
17Chapter 16: The Hazards of the Melt
18Conclusion
19References: Glaciers
20Glossary
21About the Author
22Series Info
23Copyright
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