Glacial environment
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Glacial Environment
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Every thing starting as a Snow Flake and snow flake is a beautiful hexagonal crystal of ice
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Formation of snowflakes
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Formation of snowflakes
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As the snow accumulates, it is gradually transformed into ice. The weight of overlying snow packs it down, drives out much of the air, and causes it to recrystallize into a coarser, denser form (Firn) an intermediate texture between snow and ice, and finally to a compact solid mass of interlocking ice crystals
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This process may take a few seasons or several thousand years, depending on such factors as climate and the rate of snow accumulation at the top of the pile
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Glaciers
A large mass of moving ice Capable of eroding, moving, and depositing large amounts of material.
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Types
Mountain or Alpine glaciers :Forms over the mountains and the ice start flowing down to form valleys
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Once formed, the weight of snow accumulating in the upper part of the glacier causes it to move downslope, where it reaches lower altitudes and higher temperatures. The lower part of the glacier is the ablation zone where the glacier melts during the summer.
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Under stable climatic conditions equilibrium develops between accumulation at the head and melting at the front, with the glacier moving downslope all the time, but the positions of the head and snout remain fixed
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Zone of accumulation (input)Zone of ablation (ablation exceeds accumulation)
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Continental glaciers
Much larger and thicker forming massive sheets of ice2 polar ice sheetsGreenlandAntarctica
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Ice sheetExtends over 50,000 km2
Antarctic and Greenland
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Ice capSimilar to an ice sheet though smallerForming roughly circular, dome-like structure
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Continental glaciers
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Glaciers do not behave as rigid, Their flow is plasticHigh pressure and some times geothermal heat causing in melting of the layer at the base so ice start sliding Move by two basic processes:
Basal Slip – the process causing the ice at the base of a glacier to melt and the glacier to slide.
Internal Plastic Flow(internal deformation) –the process by which glaciers flow slowly as grains of ice deform under pressure and slide over each other.
Movement
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Internal deformation
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Glacial advancing
When accumulation rate exceeds ablation rate so we have glacial advancing
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Glacial Retreating
When accumulation rate less than ablation rate we have glacial retreating
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GLACIAL EROSION
Mechanism involved…PluckingGlacier flows over a fractured bedrock surfaceit loosens and lift blocks of rocks and incorporate them into ice
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AbrasionHappens when ice and its load of rock fragment slides over bedrock
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Plucking and abrasion
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Freeze Thaw
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The glacial processes that change the shape of mountains begin in the upper end of the valley where
an alpine glacier forms.
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How selected features of continental glaciation, including kames, originated.
During Glacial Cirque and Arêtes form and glacial creates a U shaped valley
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Postglacial
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Features of alpine Glaciation
Erosional features CirquesArêtesHornsTruncated spursU-shaped valleysHanging valleysTarns and paternoster lakesDepositional FeaturesMoraines
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Cirque formation
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An arête is a sharp ridge formed when two cirques cut back
Arête
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Features of alpine Glaciation
a)Horn( b)Cirque (c)Arete
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a)Horn (b)cirque (c) U shape valley
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U shape valley after glaciation
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Hanging valley
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Tarn
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Paternoster lakes
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Glacial Deposition
Landforms resulting from a glacier depositing till are called moraines.
Lateral moraine: deposited along the sides of an alpine glacier, usually as a long ridge.
Medial moraine: form when the lateral moraines of alpine glaciers meet.
Ground moraine: unsorted materials left beneath the glacier when the ice melts.
Terminal moraine: small ridges of till deposited at the leading edge of a melting glacier.
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Ground Morains
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Erosional features
roche moutonnée
Depositional features
Terminal moraines
Till plain, outwash plain
Eskers
Kettles
Kames
Erratics
Drumlins
Features of Continental Glaciation
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Roche moutonnée
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Roche moutonnée (sheepbacks)
Ice flow
Stoss sideLee side
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Eskers
Melt water forms a tunnel under a glacial ice sheetTunnel fills with rocks, sand and gravel
After retreat of the ice, material collected in the tunnel is left to form a ridge
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Kettle lake
A big chunk of ice trapped then melted to form kettle lake and sediments deposited around it
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Erratics
Large rocks transported from a distant source by a glacier
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Erratics
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Erratics
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Deposition: drumlins
Oval shaped hills
Formed of till left by glaciation
Blunt end facing opposite ice flow
Often found in “shoals”
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Drumlins
Ice flow
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Eskers – economic benefits
Mined for materials – sand, gravel and stones for construction
Used for natural water filtration
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Glaciers are not only large masses of ice; they can also be viewed as an important freshwater reserve. Approximately 75% of the fresh
water on earth is stored as ice in glaciers
Important source for deposits
Climate and environment indicator
General Benefits
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Glacial Geology, Ice Sheets and Landforms [Matthew M. Bennett, Neil F. Glasser]
Sedimentologyandstratigraphy 2nd edition by Gary Nichols
Environmental geology , carla c montgomry
Further reading
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