Papers from the Sixth International Symposium on Antarctic Glaciology (ISAG-6), Lanzhou, China, 5-9 September 1998

This volume contains papers presented to the Sixth International Symposium on Antarctic Glaciology (ISAG6). The symposium was organized by the Scientific Committee for Antarctic Research Working Group on Glaciology and hosted by the Lanzhou Institute of Glaciology and Geocryology, Chinese Academy of Science. The International Glaciological Society (IGS), the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the State Science and Technology Commission of China, the State Oceanic Bureau of China and the Chinese Academy of Science were co-sponsors of the symposium There were 78 participants from 20 countries at the symposium. 93 papers were presented, 73 as oral presentations and 20 as poster presentations. Fifty of these papers are published in the volume. All papers were refereed and edited in accordance with IGS's usual practices.