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Glaciation Examples Flashcards

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Cryosphere

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  • Periglacial environments
  • Glacial environments
  • Sea and ice shelves
  • River and lake ice
  • Snow cover
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Relic Pleistocene Landscapes

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  • Llanberis Valley - Glacial trough🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿
  • Brecon Beacons - Cirques🇬🇧
  • Hereford - Terminal Moraine🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿
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Disruption to the Thermohaline Circulation - what caused the Younger Dryas

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Glacial Lake Agassiz, North America🇺🇸

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Vikings

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•Medieval warm period (800-1300AD)🇮🇸🇬🇱
•Little Ice Age (1350-1850)🇮🇸🇬🇱
Disappearance of Vikings (1540)🇮🇸🇬🇱

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Global warming

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•Frost fairs, London🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

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Cirque (alpine)

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  • Brecon Beacons🇬🇧 (relic Pleistocene)

* Cirque du Maudit, Mont Blanc🇮🇹🇫🇷

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Valley glacier (alpine)

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Mer de Glace🇫🇷

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Piedmont Glacier (alpine)

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Skaftarjokull🇮🇸

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Highland Ice Field Glacier (alpine)

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  • Vallée Blanché🇫🇷

* Eyjafjallakökull🇮🇸

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Ice cap (polar)

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Jostedalsbreen🇳🇴

Langjokull🇮🇸

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Ice sheet (polar)

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  • Antarctica🇦🇶

* Greenland🇬🇱

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Periglacial processes

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  • Solifluction
  • Frost heave
  • Frost creep
  • Ground contraction
  • Freeze-thaw weathering
  • Pressure release theory (Tor)
  • Palmer theory (Tor)
  • Nivation
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Periglacial features

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  • Ice wedge polygons/patterned ground (Ground ice)
  • Stone polygons and stripes/patterned ground (Ground ice)
  • Open/Closed system pingo (Ground ice)
  • Tor (freeze-thaw)
  • Blockfield (freeze-thaw)
  • Nivation Hollow (freeze-thaw)
  • Scree Slope (freeze thaw)
  • Solifluction lobe (mass movement)
  • Frost creep (mass movement)
  • Loess plain (wind/meltwater)
  • Braided streams (wind/meltwater)
  • Protalus rampart
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Surging glaciers

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Hubbard Glacier, Alaska🇺🇸

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Changes in environment affect glaciers

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Briksdalsbreen Glacier🇳🇴

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Erosional features

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  • Cirque (Macro)
  • Arête (Macro)
  • Pyramidal Peak (Macro)
  • Glacial Trough (Macro)
  • Truncated Spur (Macro)
  • Ribbon Lake (Macro)
  • Knock and Lochan (Macro)
  • Crag and Tail (Macro)
  • Hanging Valley (Macro/Meso)
  • Roche Moutonnee (Meso)
  • Striations (Meso)
  • Chatter Marks (Meso)
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Crag and tail (Macro erosional feature)

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Edinburgh Castle and the Royal Mile🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

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Glacial mass balance

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Briksdalsbreen Glacier🇳🇴

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Depositional features

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  • Drumlin (Ice contact)
  • Till plain (Ice contact)
  • Lateral Moraine (Ice contact)
  • Medial Moraine (Ice contact)
  • Terminal Moraine (Ice contact)
  • Recessional Moraine (Ice contact)
  • Esker (Fluvio-glacial)
  • Kame (Fluvio-glacial)
  • Kame Terrace (Fluvio-glacial)
  • Kettle Hole Lakes (Fluvio-glacial)
  • Outwash Plain (Fluvio-glacial)
  • Pro-glacial Lakes (Fluvio-glacial)
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Till plains

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East Anglia - much of East Anglia is an extensive till plain formed from repeated ice sheet advances - averages 30m thick🇬🇧

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Erratic boulders

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Big rock, Alberta🇨🇦

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Esker

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Munroe Esker🇨🇦 400km long

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Proglacial lake

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Lake Missoula🇺🇸

Lake Annecy🇫🇷

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Outwash plain/sandur

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Svalbard, Norway🇳🇴

Iceland🇮🇸

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Value of glacial & periglacial environments

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  • Jon Muir (1838-1914)
  • Yellowstone (1872)🇺🇸
  • Yosemite (1890)🇺🇸
  • Norwegian culture🇳🇴
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Agricultural use

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👍Till plain - Glencoe Valley🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
👎🏾Till deposits - English Fenlands🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿
👎🏾Knock and Lochan - Outer Hebrides🇬🇧

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Construction and settlements

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  • Sandar - Hereford🇬🇧

* Crag and tail - Edinburgh🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

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Communications

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•Abandoned spillways and cols provide passes through upland areas
-Overspill channel, Lake Wooferton, Herefordshire🇬🇧
-Col, Glencoe Valley🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
•Fjords provide natural harbours
-Royal Navy’s Nuclear submarine base Gare Loch, River Clyde🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
•Eskers - foundations for roads & railways🇫🇮

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Tourism and leisure

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  • Alps🇫🇷
  • Highlands🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
  • Lake District🇬🇧
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Anthropogenic climate change (human impact)

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  • To kill a glacier article - Andean glaciers, Chile🇨🇱

* Melting away article - Niaqornat, Greenland🇬🇱

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Exploitation/resources

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  • Prudhoe Bay, Alaska🇺🇸
  • Canada🇨🇦
  • Alps🇫🇷
  • Yamal Peninsula🇷🇺
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Fragile environment

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•Alaska🇺🇸

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Opportunities provided by glacial environments

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  • Tourism - Alps🇫🇷
  • Energy production - Dinorwig🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Emosson🇨🇭
  • Water supply - Asia🌏
  • Quarrying - Lake District🇬🇧
  • Agriculture - Glencoe Valley🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
  • Transport -Glencoe Valley🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Lake Wooferton🇬🇧
  • Settlements - Hereford🇬🇧
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Human impact

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  • Emosson🇨🇭
  • Alps🇫🇷
  • Alaska🇺🇸
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Threats to glaciated landscapes from natural hazards

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  • Jokulhlaups - Namche Hydro Project, Sagarmatha (1985)🇳🇵
  • Avalanches - Sagarmatha (2015)🇳🇵
  • Deforestation & landslides - Nepal🇳🇵
  • Lahars
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Threats to glaciated landscapes from human activity

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  • Polar Tourism - Antarctic & Svalbard🇳🇴
  • Greenland (2014)🇬🇱
  • Political Disputes - (2007) Russia🇷🇺
  • Yamal Peninsula🇷🇺
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Threats to glaciated landscapes from global warming

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  • Greenland Ice Sheet🇬🇱
  • Greenland Polar Bears🇬🇱
  • Yamal Peninsula🇷🇺
  • Niaqornat, Greenland🇬🇱
  • Andean glaciers, Chile🇨🇱
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Stakeholders in glacial landscapes (Managing threats)

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  • IGOs
  • TNCs
  • Pressure Groups
  • Governments
  • Local Businesses
  • Natives
  • Tourists and visitors
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Legislative frameworks to protect and conserve glacial environments (managing threats)

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  • Antarctic Treaty (1961)📝

* Alpine Convention📝

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Alpine convention: mitigation

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Slovenia🇸🇮

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Alpine convention: adaptation

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Bavaria🇩🇪

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