21. Glaciers: World Of Earth Science glaciers are large landbound bodies of ice. To be called a glacier, the ice mass must be moving, or show evidence of having moved in the past. http://www.enotes.com/earth-science/glaciers

22. PidhoWEB Un cours de M. Burkhard, Universit de Neuch tel. Pr sente la description d un glacier alpin et son fonctionnement, avec illustrations. http://www-geol.unine.ch/cours/geol/glacier.htm

23. Glaciers glaciers Introduction Agassiz and Charpentier Types of glaciers Snow Line Alpine glaciers Continental glaciers Agents of Erosion and Deposition The Movement of glaciers http://www.scarborough.k12.me.us/high/projects/geoscience4/sbergg/glaciers.htm

Glaciers Introduction Agassiz and Charpentier Types of Glaciers Snow Line ... Back To Intro of Geoscience INTRODUCTION Glaciology is defined as the study of existing glaciers. This is also called the physics of ice, or the chemistry of ice. The study of permafrost is called cryology. Glacial geology is the work of what the glacier did. Quaternary geology is the study of sequence of strata laid down by glaciers, including areas that were not directly covered by glaciers, but underwent changes because of glaciation. AGASSIZ AND CHARPENTIER In the early 19th century, Louis Agassiz and Charpentier discovered much of what we know about glaciers today. They hiked the Alps together in 1836. Charpentier was an engineer who already had theories about glaciers and fish fossils. Louis published his theories in 1840 as his own. Agassiz got the credit, although Carpentier published his own book in 1841. TYPES OF GLACIERS Glaciers are ice sheets. There are 2 kinds of glaciers: alpine glaciers and continental glaciers. Alpine glaciers are formed when valleys above the snow line fill with ice and snow. Snow is compacted and gradually begins to flow downhill due to gravity. THE SNOW LINE The snow line in found in areas that are covered by snow. Above this line, the snow is always permanent. The snow falls and then melts. The snow line depends both on elevation and latitude. The snow line is highest near the equator and lowest near the poles. This can change depending in the sun. The Earth can move with it. This is linked to Plate Tectonics. All the snow above the snow line is permanent.

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25. All About Glaciers Links to glacier research and projects, glacier facts, questions and answers, a glossary, gallery, bibliography and links to glacier information on the Web. http://www-nsidc.colorado.edu/glaciers/

window.name = "mainPage" Education Center Photo Gallery Data Advanced Data Search Easy-to-use Data Products Data Collections Data Submission ... Roger G. Barry Resource Office for Cryospheric Studies (ROCS) Science Scientists Research Projects Publications NSIDC Notes Glaciological Data Series Special Reports Annual Reports ... Events About Expertise NSIDC Sponsors Contacts Jobs ... photo credits Like great rivers of ice, glaciers have sculpted mountains and carved out valleys. They continue to flow and shape the landscape in many places today. All About Glaciers is a glacier site with something for everyone from glaciologists to grade school students, exploring nearly all aspects of glaciers including data and science, facts, a gallery, a glossary and much more. See Also Glacier Photograph Collection: Repeat Photography of Glaciers View and download photographs of glaciers "then" and "now." Compare photographs of glaciers taken as early as the 1890s with recent photographs, to see how glaciers have changed over long periods of time. Site Credits Science lead: Dr. Richard Armstrong, NSIDC

26. Glacier Story Most of the world's glaciers are found near the Poles, but glaciers exist on all of the world's continents, even Africa. Australia doesn't have any glaciers; however, it is http://nsidc.org/glaciers/story/

window.name = "mainPage" Education Center Photo Gallery Data Advanced Data Search Easy-to-use Data Products Data Collections Data Submission ... Roger G. Barry Resource Office for Cryospheric Studies (ROCS) Science Scientists Research Projects Publications NSIDC Notes Glaciological Data Series Special Reports Annual Reports ... Events About Expertise NSIDC Sponsors Contacts Jobs ... In Retreat A Tour of the Life of a Glacier Most of the world's glaciers are found near the Poles, but glaciers exist on all of the world's continents, even Africa. Australia doesn't have any glaciers; however, it is considered part of Oceania, which includes several Pacific island chains and the large islands of Papua New Guinea and New Zealand. Both of these islands have glaciers. Glaciers require very specific climatic conditions. Most are found in regions of high snowfall in winter and cool temperatures in summer. These conditions ensure that the snow that accumulates in the winter isn't lost (by melt, evaporation, or calving ) during the summer. Such conditions typically prevail in polar and high alpine regions. There are two main types of glaciers: valley glaciers and continental glaciers (known as ice sheets The amount of precipitation (whether in the form of snowfall, freezing rain, avalanches, or wind-drifted snow) is important to glacier survival. In areas such as Antarctica, where the low temperatures are ideal for glacier growth, very low annual precipitation causes the glaciers to grow very slowly.

27. Glaciers Surfnetkids.com recommends five glacier websites. A glacier is a large flowing ice mass. Some glaciers move at a snail's pace, just a few inches a day, while others advance http://www.surfnetkids.com/glacier.htm

28. GNP’s Glaciers: Going, Going . . . - Science News glaciers. Image Copyright 1998 PhotoDisc, Inc. A glacier is a big river of ice, water and rocks. How A Glacier Is Formed. In some places it is cold all year long. http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/64674/title/GNP’s_glaciers__Going,_

Earth Environment Humans Life ... Search http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/64674 Home News Features Blogs ... SUBSCRIBE In the November 20 Issue: TABLE OF CONTENTS Clash of the Quantum Titans: After decades of debate, disputes over the mathematical rules governing reality remain unresolved Everyday Entanglement: ... Past Issues Advertisement Home Blogs Blog entry GNP’s glaciers: Going, going . . . Climate warming will eliminate them within a generation, data indicate By Janet Raloff Web edition Monday, October 25th, 2010 Text Size Enlarge Grinnell Glacier then and now This ice field at Glacier National Park was first photographed in 1940 (top). A 2006 color photo shows that just remnants remain. (older) USGS/ (2006) Karen Holzer/USGS Glacier National Park , Montana The nation’s tenth national park — once home to some 150 named glaciers — is running out of ice fields. Century-old Glacier National Park has but 25 glaciers left. And computer models by federal scientists working at the park indicate that within another decade — at most two — the only place to see the region’s glaciers will be in historic photos. The problem: The region’s climate has been warming, notes

29. Ice Age Explanation Explains how the ice builds up and glaciers are made. http://culter.colorado.edu:1030/~saelias/glacier.html

What causes ice-ages? How does the ice build up? Throughout the Quaternary period, high latitude winters have been cold enough to allow snow to accumulate. It is when the summers are cold, (i.e., summers that occur when the sun is at its farthest point in Earth's orbit), that the snows of previous winters do not melt completely. When this process continues for centuries, ice sheets begin to form. Finally, the shape of Earth's orbit also changes. At one extreme, the orbit is more circular, so that each season receives about the same amount of insolation. At the other extreme, the orbital ellipse is stretched longer, exaggerating the differences between seasons. The eccentricity of Earth's orbit also proceeds through a long cycle, which takes 100,000 years. Major glacial events in the Quaternary have coincided when the phases of axial tilt, precession of equinoxes and eccentricity of orbit are all lined up to give the northern hemisphere the least amount of summer insolation. What makes the ice melt when the glaciation is over? Major interglacial periods have occurred when the three factors line up to give the northern hemisphere the greatest amount of summer insolation. The last major convergence of factors giving us maximum summer warmth occurred 11,000 years ago, at the transition between the last glaciation and the current interglacial, the Holocene. During the late Pleistocene, the Rocky Mountain regions of Canada and the regions farther west were almost engulfed in the Cordilleran Ice Sheet, while most of Canada east of the Rockies and the north-central and northeastern United States were covered by the Laurentide Ice Sheet. The divide between the two ice sheets lay east of the Rockies, with the two ice bodies meeting near the U.S.-Canadian border in eastern Montana. The Laurentide ice sheet is thought to have been as much as two miles thick at the center.

30. Glaciers As glacier enter a section of increasing slope, or near where they enter the sea they may speed up and the surface ice especially is under tension. http://www.rosssea.info/glaciers.html

Glaciers of Antarctica As glacier enter a section of increasing slope, or near where they enter the sea they may speed up and the surface ice especially is under tension. This gives a U shaped "concave upstream" crevasse pattern as seen here in the short steep Mulock outlet glacier, which lies south of th Worcestor Range and the Skelton area. And the effects on Climatic Change. Ice Streams The ice cap does not slowly flow radially outward in all directions. In places a deeper channel has been worn down and ice, say 10,000ft thick will flow a lot faster than ice 4,000ft thick. From the air the boundaries of the ice stream or "channel glacier" can be plainly seen. The biggest is the Lambert Glacier which flows to the sea over in the Australian sector, it is up to 80 km wide and flows near the sea at a rate of about 1 km per year into the Amery Ice shelf at Prydz Bay. In actual fact, the Lambert appears to consist of a series of ice streams which flow into a tectonic depression and become channelled into an outlet glacier which forms a large ice-shelf where it enters a widening bay. The Ross Ice shelf is largely built from several ice-streams flowing out of the West-Antarctic Ice Sheet, (WAIS) , as well as by Outlet Glaciers flowing through the mountains from the EAIS. The Bay of Whales is the inlet formed downstream of Roosevelt Island. At least five bases have been built there, on what can only be a very unstable site, but the ice edge is low enough to unload a ship. To think that the original Byrd Station was built by materials towed in by tractor train from Bay of Whales. If the drivers has seen this satellite view they might well have said "No way!" I think only one was killed. There are sharp differences in flow rate along the margins of the ice streams, which are really almost submerged Outlet Glaciers. The possibility that this lot could break up and melt suddenly would seem about as likely as NZ suddenly sinking below the sea, the central ice plateau being well confined by mountains whatever it's base level might be!

31. Retreat Of Glaciers Since 1850 - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia The retreat of glaciers since 1850 affects the availability of fresh water for irrigation and domestic use, mountain recreation, animals and plants that depend on glaciermelt http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retreat_of_glaciers_since_1850

Retreat of glaciers since 1850 From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation search A view down the Whitechuck Glacier in Glacier Peak Wilderness in 1973 The retreat of glaciers since 1850 affects the availability of fresh water for irrigation and domestic use, mountain recreation, animals and plants that depend on glacier-melt, and in the longer term, the level of the oceans. Studied by glaciologists , the temporal coincidence of glacier retreat with the measured increase of atmospheric greenhouse gases is often cited as an evidentiary underpinning of global warming . Mid-latitude mountain ranges such as the Himalayas Alps Rocky Mountains Cascade Range , and the southern Andes , as well as isolated tropical summits such as Mount Kilimanjaro in Africa, are showing some of the largest proportionate glacial loss. The Little Ice Age was a period from about 1550 to 1850 when the world experienced relatively cooler temperatures compared to the present. Subsequently, until about 1940, glaciers around the world retreated as the climate warmed substantially. Glacial retreat slowed and even reversed temporarily, in many cases, between 1950 and 1980 as a slight global cooling occurred. Since 1980, a significant global warming has led to glacier retreat becoming increasingly rapid and ubiquitous, so much so that some glaciers have disappeared altogether, and the existence of a great number of the remaining glaciers of the world is threatened. In locations such as the Andes of South America and Himalayas in Asia, the demise of glaciers in these regions will have potential impact on water supplies. The retreat of mountain glaciers, notably in western North America, Asia, the Alps

32. Glaciers: Face Of The Earth Ice sheets and glaciers form the largest component of perennial ice on this planet. Over 75% of the world's fresh water is presently locked up in these frozen reservoirs. http://www.edu.pe.ca/southernkings/glacierjf.htm

Home Games Glossary Bulletin Board ... SKC Homepage Glaciers Ice sheets and glaciers form the largest component of perennial ice on this planet. Over 75% of the world's fresh water is presently locked up in these frozen reservoirs. The Antarctic Ice Sheet is more complicated than the Greenland Ice Sheet. In the past three million years, there have been four glacial periods, each followed by an interglacial period. The most recent glacial period began about 75,000 years ago. The Antarctic Ice Sheets outlet glaciers include the steep and heavily creviced Beordmore Glacier, one of the worlds longest outlet. A glacier is a huge mass of ice that flows slowly over land. They form in the cold polar regions and in high mountains. The low temperatures in these places enable large amounts of snow to build up and turn inti ice. Most glaciers range in thickness from about 91 to 3,000 meters. Glaciers are formed when more snow falls during the winter than melts and evaporates in summer. The extra snow gradually builds up in layers. Its increasing weight causes the snow crystals under the surface to become compact, grainlike pellets. At depths of 15 meters or more, the pellets are further compressed into thick crystals of ice. These crystals combine to form glacial ice. The ice eventually becomes so thick that it begins to move under the pressure of its own great weight. Huge moving sheets of ice are wearing down parts of the earth's surface. In Antarctica and Greenland, ice covers all but the tips of the highest mountains. These ice sheets are located in Greenland, Antarctica and other frozen parts of North and South Pole. The ice sheet that covers much of Greenland is growing smaller because of a gradual rise in temperature in the area since the early 1900s.

33. Glaciers - An Overview Of Glaciers A comprehensive overview of glaciers. Includes the types of glaciers, how glaciers carve the land, and the importance of glaciers. From Colin Stief of Geography at About.com. http://geography.about.com/od/geographyintern/a/glaciers.htm

zWASL=1;zGRH=1 zJs=10 zJs=11 zJs=12 zJs=13 zc(5,'jsc',zJs,9999999,'') zDO=0 Home Education Geography Geography Search Geography What Is Geography? Maps Share w(x2+zWl+'?p=1" zT="18/1[N" rel="nofollow">Print') Free Geography Newsletter! Sign Up Discuss in my Forum Glaciers From Colin Stief, Geography Intern See More About: glaciers physical geography geomorphology climate Glacier Country in Antarctica. Getty Images/Tom Brakefield zSB(3,3) Glaciers are a hot topic these days and are a frequent subject of debate when discussing global climate change or the fate of polar bears. Do you ever find yourself asking what glaciers have to do with global warming? Have you ever wondered what exactly your friend meant when she told you that you moved at a glacial pace? Either way, read on, and learn all about these frozen landforms. Glacier Basics A glacier is essentially a huge mass of ice resting on land or floating in the sea next to land. Moving extremely slowly, a glacier acts similarly to an immense river of ice, often merging with other glaciers in a stream-like manner. Regions with continuous snowfall and constant freezing temperatures foster the development of these frozen rivers. It is so cold in these regions that when a snowflake hits the ground it does not melt, but instead combines with other snowflakes to form larger grains of ice. As more and more snow accumulates, mounting weight and pressure squeeze these grains of ice together to form a glacier.

34. Glaciers glaciers. glaciers are masses of ice formed on land by the compaction and recrystallization of snow. As snow gets buried by repeated snowfalls, snowflakes are converted to http://www.ux1.eiu.edu/~cfjps/1300/glaciers.html

Glaciers Glaciers are masses of ice formed on land by the compaction and recrystallization of snow. As snow gets buried by repeated snowfalls, snowflakes are converted to granular snow, then firn, and finally glacial ice in a process called pressure melting. The porosity is reduced from about 90 percent for freshly fallen snow to nearly percent for ice with the transformation taking place within 30 meters of the surface. Glaciers grow when the accumulation is greater than the losses during the summer melting. They are also influenced by the steepness and elevation of the topography. e.g., a steep mountain, even if above the snow line will not have a glacier since the snow can't stick and accumulate. Mountains at low elevations, likewise, will not have glaciers. Glacier terminology (thanks to the US Geological Survey) Types of glaciers There are two primary types of glaciers: Continental : Ice sheets are dome-shaped glaciers that flow away from a central region and are largely unaffected by underlying topography (e.g., Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets); Alpine or valley : glaciers in mountains that flow down valleys. When two or glaciers meet and merge at the base of mountains, the new glacier is called a piedmont glacier. If the piedmont glacier flows to the sea, it's called a tidewater glacier.

35. Glaciers To the main page of Earth Science Australia no advertising, no spyware Freeware Free downloads of earth science software Cyber Education Free self-learning on-line Energy http://earthsci.org/education/teacher/basicgeol/glacier/glacier.html

Home To the main page of Earth Science Australia - no advertising, no spyware Freeware Free downloads of earth science software ... listen to classical music from a new window while you browse glaciers Glaciers Contents of Entire Course Definition of a glacier Mountain Glaciers Ice Sheets: (Continental glaciers) ... Causes of Glacial Ages adapted to HTML from lecture notes of Prof. Stephen A. Nelson Tulane University Glaciers constitute much of the Earth that makes up the cryosphere, the part of the Earth that remains below the freezing point of water. Most glacial ice today is found in the polar regions, above the Arctic and Antarctic Circles. While glaciers are of relatively minor importance today, evidence exists that the Earth's climate has undergone fluctuations in the past, and that the amount of the Earth's surface covered by glaciers has been much larger in the past than in the present. In fact, much of the topography in the northern part of North America, as well as in the high mountain regions of the west, owe their form to erosional and depositional processes of glaciers. The latest glaciation ended only 10,000 years ago. Definition of a glacier A glacier is a permanent (on a human time scale, because nothing on the Earth is really permanent) body of ice, consisting largely of recrystallized snow, that shows evidence of downslope or outward movement due to the pull of gravity.

36. Glacier Ice Hockey Club Hockey Website Software By GOALLINE.ca GOALLINE.ca The number one name in Sports Administration Software. GOALLINE specializes in building web based tools for enhancing sports organizations. http://glaciershockey.org/

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37. Glaciers glaciers. Glaciology is the study of glaciers and glacial activitythis photo shows an alpine glacier areasome glacial deposits have important uses in the cement and http://courses.missouristate.edu/EMantei/creative/glg110/glaciers.html

GLACIERS Glaciology is the study of glaciers and glacial activitythis photo shows an alpine glacier areasome glacial deposits have important uses in the cement and concrete industries I. Basic concepts A. Definition a glacier is any mass of ice on land sufficient enough to flow click here to read more on what a glacier is B. Classification of glaciers 1. Mountain or alpine glaciers formed in and restricted to the mountainous areas on Earth and comprise a small amount of the total glacial ice on Earth 2. Continental glaciers or ice sheets massive amounts of ice covering continents and comprise about 95% of all glacial ice on Earth C. Theories and concepts of glacial ice growth and demise temperature and/or precipitation are the two most important factors governing the growth and death or demise of glacial ice this involves long term changes in temperature and/or precipitation 1. Continental glaciers a. Activity on sun some think a long term change in solar flare intensity can affect temperature on the global scale causing increases or decreases of glacial ice on Earth b. Greenhouse effect-some believe increase (decrease) concentrations of certain gases in our atmosphere such as carbon dioxide (CO2) can increase (decrease) global temperature causing glacial ice to decrease (increase)

38. Documentaire Sur Les Glaciers g n rale des glaciers, leur volution au cours du temps, les risques glaciaires....... http://www-lgge.obs.ujf-grenoble.fr/~annel/Documentaire/

Qu'est ce qu'un glacier ? Les glaciers en mouvement Les glaciers au cours du temps Le bilan de masse glaciaire ... Autres sites Pour aller plus loin : Observatoire de Recherche en Environnement : GLACIOCLIM Pages du groupe "Glaciers" du LGGE Groupe Glaciers LGGE

39. Understanding The Formation And Extent Of North American Glaciers & Icefields Mountain Nature Network. Learn the secrets of mountain geology.Follow the process from deposition to uplift, and learn how the landcsape is sculpted into a multitude of landforms. http://www.mountainnature.com/geology/Glaciers.htm

Home Landscape Plants Wildlife ... Search Site Directory MountainNature Home Ward Cameron Ent. Contact Us Nature Forecast ... Books Icefields and Glaciers Glaciers, of all our alpine landforms, have had more visual impact on our landscape than any erosional agent, save water. Look around you, you’ll see smooth mountain bowls (cirques), wide mountain passes, broad u-shaped valleys, Matterhorn style summits and sharp ridges—all legacies of the ice age. Key Topics Introduction to Mountain Glaciers Climate Change - a little goes a long way Timetable of Canadian Rockies Glacial Periods Balanced Budgets - Advance or Retreat ... Hire an expert guide to show you our Glaciers Retreat of The Athabasca Glacier between 1900-1990 An Introduction to Mountain Glaciers Despite their immense impact on the landscape, glaciers are a relative newcomer to the mountain scene. The first buildup of ice occurred approximately 240,000 years ago and ended 128,000 BP. It was followed by a period of warmer climate. There were at least 5 subsequent advances that saw glaciers reclaiming their valleys. In reality, the ice age was not something that began, and then ended. It was a series of advances followed by warmer Interglacial Periods. The final advance was quite recent

40. Grand Teton National Park & John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Memorial Parkway - Glaciers As spring approaches that white blanket dwindles in size; however, even in the heat of summer, snow and ice are present in the form of glaciers and snowfields. http://www.nps.gov/grte/naturescience/glaciers.htm

/* Styles generated for CommonSpot elements */ Search this park Search nps.gov Site Index Frequently Asked Questions Contact Us view map text size: printer friendly Glaciers KFinch/NPS Photo The Middle Teton Glacier can be viewed from the Lower Saddle trail. Old snow from the previous winter still remains along the top of the glacier even in mid-September when this photo was taken. If the snow lasts through the summer into the next year, it is called firn, if it remains for many more years it will be metamorphosed into glacier ice. A quilt of snow blankets Grand Teton National Park in the winter. As spring approaches that white blanket dwindles in size; however, even in the heat of summer, snow and ice are present in the form of glaciers and snowfields. An average of 176.5 inches of snow falls in the Tetons each year, slowly feeding the glaciers and snowfields each winter, while the warm temperatures of the summer season eat away at this surplus of snow. Glaciers carry rocks, soil, sand, and other debris from higher to lower elevations. This material can be carried on the surface, inside, or even frozen to the bottom of the glacier. All glaciers flow and are lubricated by the accumulation of meltwater under their base, a process called basal slippage. One major feature you may see on a glacier is a crevasse. Crevasses are deep, V-shaped structures found in the uppermost layer of the glacier. To visualize what happens to a glacier as it moves, imagine bending a Snickers bar into an arch, the surface of the bar will crack, while the base (nougat) remains flexible. This is how a glacier moves, the surface is rigid and cracks as the glacier moves over uneven terrain or around a corner, while the base is more plastic and will remain whole.

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