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Week 1: Importance of glaciers
Glacier,
Importance of glaciers,
Glacio isostasy
51
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Week 2: Water in glaciers
Importance of glacial meltwater,
Meltwater sources,
How does ice snow melt
42
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Week 3: Glacier flow
Over long periods of time glacier...,
Wedge model,
Steeper mass balance gradient bal...
39
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Week 4: Marine glaciers, ice shelves and calving
Importance of marine terminating ...,
Calving in antarctica and greenland,
Ice shelf
36
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Week 5: Glacier and ice sheet modelling
Why do we model glaciers and ice ...,
Predicting future change with models,
Reconstructing past change with m...
33
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Week 6: Glacier erosion processes
Glacier erosion,
What is glacier erosion linked to,
Glacier erosion reflects the bala...
58
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Week 7: Landforms and landscapes from glacial erosion
Classification of erosional lands...,
Controls on erosion and form refe...,
Controls on erosion and form
61
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Week 8: Glacial geomorphological mapping
Two sequential stages to glacial ...,
Morphological mapping,
Geomorphological mapping
13
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Week 9: Glacial Sediments
Components of the debris cascade,
Primary sources,
Secondary sources
89
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Week 10: Subglacial processes and landforms
What happens as ice streams move ...,
Subglacial and englacial debris p...,
Types of subglacial and englacial...
81
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Week 11: Ice marginal sedimentation and landforms (moraines)
How are moraines classified,
Moraine classification environmen...,
Moraine classification plan form
59
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Week 12: Glacifluvial processes and landforms
Chaos,
Kames,
Ice walled lake plains
40
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Week 13: Glacial landsystems
Landsystem,
Process form model,
Holistic approach to glacial land...
40
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Week 20: Walking on thin ice?
Ice age earth,
The last deglaciation,
Since the last deglaciation
41
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Readings
Benn and lehmkuhl 2000,
Maisch 1995,
Braithwaite 2002
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References
Ela where over one year accumulat...,
Former elas powerful method of qu...,
Knowledge of glacier elas palaeoc...
125
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Week 1 references
Glacier snow and ice mass which i...,
Glaciers respire co2 focussing on...,
Positive degree days
3
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Week 2 references
Subglacial lakes eg antarctica ex...,
Englacial meltwater drainage can ...,
Englacial meltwater drainage vert...
15
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Week 3 references
Some parts of antarctic ice sheet...,
Complications of basal stress wrt...,
Subglacial deformation experiment...
5
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Week 4 references
Equation for water depth calving ...,
Crevasse depth calving model,
Ice discharge increases with wate...
12
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Week 6 references
Hallet friction model,
Sandpaper friction model,
Abrasion includes both polishing ...
14
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Week 7 references
Controls on erosion and form,
Small landform types,
P forms originally thought to be ...
25
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Week 8 references
Cross cutting superimposed landfo...,
Azimuth biasing and shading pose ...
2
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Week 9 references
Till is a sediment and is perhaps...,
Glacitectonite rock sediment defo...,
Subglacial traction till sediment...
4
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Week 10 references
Plucking and bedrock communition ...,
Stress and therefore failure is e...,
Deforming bed theory found by res...
45
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Week 11 references
Push squeeze moraines deformation...,
Push squeeze moraines squeezing,
Push squeeze moraine slab melt out
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Week 12 references
Who mapped 20 000 eskers on the l...,
Explanations of incremental depos...,
Glacifluvial outwash sediment ver...
3
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Week 13 references
Landsystems subglacial supraglaci...,
Landsystems surging glacier ice s...,
Landsystems model for actively re...
11
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Week 20 references
There are 198 000 glaciers,
Climate change ghg anthrophenic q...,
Paper with global mass balance es...
12
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