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1 Glaciers

2 What is a glacier?  Glacier- A large moving mass of snow and ice

3 Where are glaciers found?

4 How are glaciers formed?  Snow falls on the side of a mountain and begins to collect

5  As more and more snow piles up, it creates pressure  The snow is packed down into ice and accumulates as a large sheet of ice  As more and more snow piles up, it creates pressure  The snow is packed down into ice and accumulates as a large sheet of ice

6 Snow into Ice  Snow becomes packed  As its packed, it turns to ice

7 Pressure and Gravity  As more snow falls, glaciers become thicker and heavier  Gravity pulls glaciers downward with great pressure against the ground

8 Movement  Glaciers move very slowly  Glaciers slide, or creep over the ground

9 Calving Calving occurs when pieces of a tidewater glacier break off and fall into the sea

10 Calving

11 Crevasses  As Glaciers move, the ice on top bends and cracks  These cracks are called Crevasses

12 Crevasses

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14 Glacier Snout  Front end of a glacier. Also called the terminus.

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16 Erosion  As Glaciers move, they pick up debris  Stones and boulders are picked up and carried along  Using these stones and their weight, glaciers grind and carve the landscape

17 Erosion

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19  A glaciated valley in the Mount Baker- Snoqualmie National Forest showing the characteristic U-shape and flat bottom.

20 Erosion  The Llanberis Pass in Snowdonia National Park, north Wales, is typical of a U-shaped valley formed by glacial erosion.

21 Icebergs

22 Most of the icebergs are found under water, making them very dangerous to ships.

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24 Calving of a Glacier

25 Melting Glaciers

26 Glacier Fun  When glaciers melt they deposit materials, creating terminal moraines  Let’s see if we can use a model to show what this looks like.  Read C10 on Terminal Moraines  When glaciers melt they deposit materials, creating terminal moraines  Let’s see if we can use a model to show what this looks like.  Read C10 on Terminal Moraines

27 Terminal Moraines A massive terminal moraine marks the greatest advance of a glacier, during the last centuries, in Cordillera Huyhuash, Peru. A lake has formed between the terminal moraine and the glacier front. The tall peak is Nevado Yerupaja. Photo J. Alean 1979.

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