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In this introductory chapter basic facts about the occurrence of natural sea and land-based polar ice on our planet are provided, a brief history of the development of ice mechanics as a scientific discipline is given, and the outline of the book content, with the description of the subject matter of Chaps. 2–8 is presented.
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Staroszczyk, R. (2019). Introduction. In: Ice Mechanics for Geophysical and Civil Engineering Applications. GeoPlanet: Earth and Planetary Sciences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-03038-4_1
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