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Glaciers on the Move
Katya HafichBiological Science Initiative Science Squad 2012
University of Colorado at Boulder
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What is a glacier?
A glacier is a large mass of ice that
moves very slowly.
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://geology.about.com/od/glaciers_ice/ig/glacier-pictures/cirque-glacier.htm
How do glaciers form?
Glaciers are created when snow accumulates year after year and does not
melt.
http://ceramics.org/ceramictechtoday/tag/scanning-electron-microscope-snowflakes/
http://imnh.isu.edu/Exhibits/Online/RLO/GeoOutreach/index.php?r=rockexternal&s=causes
http://ceramics.org/ceramictechtoday/tag/scanning-electron-microscope-snowflakes/http://www.enm.bris.ac.uk/teaching/projects/2002_03/jb8355/sphere_packing.html
http://www.asf.alaska.edu/program/sdc/project/glacier_power/how_glaciers_form#
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Anatomy of a Glacier
http://imnh.isu.edu/Exhibits/Online/RLO/GeoOutreach/index.php?r=rockexternal&s=anatomy
http://www.crevasse.com/images/Gallery02/003.html
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Glaciers change the landscape…
http://www.coolgeography.co.uk/GCSE/Year%2010/PhysicalWorld/Glacial%20Landforms/glacial_landforms.htm
http://www2.nature.nps.gov/geology/usgsnps/glacier/uvalley.html
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Glaciers change the landscape…
http://www.cygnusx1.ca/uploaded_images/milford-sound-702224.jpg
http://www.coolgeography.co.uk/GCSE/Year%2010/PhysicalWorld/Glacial%20Landforms/glacial_landforms.htmHanging valleys
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Glaciers change the landscape as they move…
http://nsidc.org/cryosphere/glaciers/gallery/troughs.html
Glacial troughs
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Glaciers change the landscape as they move…
http://www.backpacker.com/august_08_phenomenon_glacial_relics/nature/12484?page=2
Arête
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Glaciers change the landscape as they move…
http://www.backpacker.com/august_08_phenomenon_glacial_relics/nature/12484?page=2
Horn
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Glaciers change the landscape as they move…
http://nsidc.org/cryosphere/glaciers/gallery/grooves.html
Striations
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Glaciers change the landscape as they move…
http://faculty.gg.uwyo.edu/neil/glaciology/photos/glacial_polish.JPG
Polish
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Glaciers change the landscape as they move…
http://travellogs.us/2007Logs/Alberta%202007/119-Buffalo%20Jump/119-Buffalo%20Jump.htm
Erratic
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Glaciers change the landscape as they move…
http://nsidc.org/cryosphere/glaciers/gallery/moraines.html
Moraine
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Glacier movement changes the landscape, but the landscape can affect the movement of the
glacier.
http://nsidc.org/cryosphere/glaciers/gallery/terminus.html
Different glaciers have different velocities.
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What affects glacier speed?
Slope
http://nsidc.org/cryosphere/glaciers/gallery/
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What affects glacier speed?
Ground Surface
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What affects glacier speed?
Temperature
http://fineartamerica.com/featured/triumvirate-glacier-in-winter-light-tim-grams.html/
http://www.rifflsee.at/en/package-details-hotel-rifflsee-pitztal-tyrol/items/glacier-summer.html/
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Test it for yourself…
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We have glaciers here in Colorado!
http://glaciers.research.pdx.edu/glaciers-colorado
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Much of the Front Range used to be covered in ice.
http://glaciers.research.pdx.edu/glaciers-colorado
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Unfortunately, our glaciers days are numbered…
http://glaciers.research.pdx.edu/glaciers-colorado
Arapahoe Glacier
1898 2003
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Unfortunately, our glaciers days are numbered…
http://glaciers.research.pdx.edu/glaciers-colorado
Tyndall Glacier
1962 2000