Chapter 12-Glaciers

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Correlation between CO2 and temperature *
 

Antarctic ice sheet    
satellite view of the Antarctic *

arête   
Illustrated Glossary of Alpine Landforms-arete 
Blue Ice-arete 
bergschrund
bergschrund near Hog's Back *
Blue Ice-bergschrund *
All About Glaciers-bergschrund
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calving glacier
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Prince William Sound-calving glaciers (text only)
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big glacial erratic-Canada*
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large esker in Manitoba, Canada
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Bridgenorth esker
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Kelleys Island glacial grooves
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glacial polish
glacial polish-Sierra Nevadas
glacial polish-Sierra Nevadas #2
glacial terminology 
glossary of glacial terms
important terms in glacial terminology
everything you need to know to start learning about glaciers
list of glacial terms
Glacier Bay National Park 
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glaciers on Mt. Rainier
glaciers on Mt. Rainier-interpreted photo
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mapping of glaciers-New Zealand*
glaciers of New Zealand-USGS
New Zealand glaciers and climate change
    
greenhouse effect  
greenhouse-green planet
hanging valley 
U-shaped valley with hanging valley*
U-shaped valley with hanging valley-interpreted
hanging valley (right side of photo)
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Matterhorn photo
horn-Mt. Everest
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ice ages 
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glacial map of north-central U.S.*
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How frequently do ice ages occur?
glaciation of the Sierra Nevada
When did the last ice age end?
When have ice ages occurred?

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3 new icebergs break of in Antarctica
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kettle lakes
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Lake Agassiz-Canada 
moraine
moraine photo-Lundy Canyon
moraine photo, interpreted-Lundy Canyon
lake behind a moraine
moraines-Peru
faulted moraines-Peru

moraine-lateral 
lateral moraine
lateral moraine-photos and text*
lateral moraine-Glaciar Grande, Argentina

moraine-medial 
medial moraine
moraine-terminal 
terminal moraine definition
large photo of end moraine
Rockwell terminal moraine area, Minnesota

outwash plain 
overview lectures
a tour of the life of a glacier
glaciers and glaciation
lecture on glaciers*
glaciers-University of Colorado
glaciers-lecture and photos*
quick glacier facts
ice
glaciation lecture (text only)
glacial systems

paternoster lakes 
Conness Lakes basin-paternoster lakes
paternoster lakes

paternoster lakes in Glacier National Park*
permafrost ground
permafrost responding to climate change
permafrost exposure
permafrost laboratory home page
drilling in permafrost
thawing permafrost threatens Alaska's foundation

photo collections of glacial features 
glacial features (with music)
online glacial photograph database-National Snow and Ice Data Center
large collection of glacial photos-Duncan Heron
glacial features of North Dakota
snow, ice, glaciers

plucking 
glacial plucking
references   
glacial references
retreating glacier    
rock flour       
rock flour definition
rock flour-New Zealand
slide-stream with rock flour
sea level changes 
Antarctic ice collapse began end of ice age?
There's more to ice ages than main theory can explain.
Ireland in the ice age
the big chill

solifluction 
solifluction definition
solifluction photo
solifluction-Alaska
solifluction article*
solifluction-Peru

striations
striated boulders
surge 
Antarctic glaciers surged after 1995 ice-shelf collapse.
glacial surge definition
surge of Bering glacier
surge of Tokositna glacier on Mt. Huntington, Alaska

till
tillite
normal fault in till-Peru
U shaped valley
U-shaped valley with glacier-Portage, Alaska
U-shaped valley*
valley glacier
Blue glacier, a valley glacier