Glacial Landscapes
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Geography
High Glaciation Notes
A link to Geography High's excellent notes on glaciation.
A link to Scalloway's excellent notes on glaciers.
Links to a number of good glaciation websites.
Glaciers are more-or-less permanent bodies of ice and compacted snow that have become deep enough and heavy enough to flow under their own weight. Today, glaciers are found in mountainous regions or in the very cold areas around the poles, and cover only about 10% of the Earth's surface. During past glacial periods this area increased considerably so, although active glaciation is very limited in Europe now, and non-existent in the UK, much of the landscape of northern Europe shows evidence of past glacial activity.
How
Glaciers Erode And Transport Sediment
As a glacier moves, particularly a warm glacier, it causes erosion of the underlying surface. However, ice doesn't seem as if it should be a particularly effective material for wearing away hard rocks, so how do glaciers manage to produce such large erosional features?
Glacial
Erosion and Deposition
These pages look at how and where glaciers form, how ice manages to flow and the features it can produce through both erosion and deposition.
