1. Chapter 17 Glacial and Periglacial Processes and Landforms
Geosystems 6e
An Introduction to Physical Geography
Robert W. Christopherson
Charles E. Thomsen

3. Glacial and Periglacial Processes and Landforms
Rivers of Ice  
Glacial Processes  
Glacial Landforms  
Periglacial Landscapes  
The Pleistocene Ice Age Epoch  
Deciphering Past Climates: Paleoclimatology  
Arctic and Antarctic Regions

4. Rivers of Ice  
Alpine Glaciers  
Continental Glacier  

5. Rivers of Ice
Figure 17.1

6. Vatnajökull Ice Cap
Figure 17.5

7. Patagonian Ice Field
Figure 17.5

8. Greenland’s East Coast
Figure 17.6

9. Glacial Processes Formation of Glacial Ice Glacial Mass Balance
Glacial Movement  

10. Retreating Alpine Glacier
Figure 17.7

11. Mass Balance
Figure 17.7

12. South Cascade Glacier Net Mass Balance
Figure NR

13. Glacial Movement and Crevasses
Figure 17.8

14. Crevasses
Figure 17.8

15. Crevasses
Figure 17.8

16. Glacial Polish
Figure 17.9

17. Glacial Landforms Erosional Landforms Created by Alpine Glaciation
Depositional Landforms Created by Alpine Glaciation  
Erosional and Depositional Landforms Created by Continental Glaciation  

18. Alpine Glacial Landscape
Figure

19. Postglacial Landscape
Figure

20. Alpine Erosional Features
Figure

21. Norwegian Fjord
Figure

22. Alpine Depositional Features
Figure

23. Continental Glacier Depositional Features
Figure 17.15

24. Drumlin Swarm
Figure 17.17

25. Roche Moutonnée
Figure

26. Periglacial Landscapes
Geography of Permafrost  
Ground Ice and Frozen Ground Phenomena  
Humans and Periglacial Landscapes  

27. Permafrost Distribution
Figure

28. Periglacial Environments
Figure

29. Ice Wedge
Figure

30. Pingo
Figure

31. Patterned Ground
Figure

32. Gelifluction Lobes
Figure 17.23

33. Permafrost Melting
Figure

34. The Pleistocene Ice Age Epoch
Changes in the Landscape  
Lowered Sea Levels and Temperatures  
Paleolakes  

35. Permafrost Structures
Figure 17.25

36. Temperature Record of the Past 2 Million Years
Figure

37. Pleistocene Glaciation
Figure

38. Pleistocene Glaciation
18,000 years ago
9500 years ago
Figure 17.27

39. Evolution of the Great Lakes
Figure

40. Paleolakes
Sevier Dry Lake
Figure

41. Deciphering Past Climates: Paleoclimatology
Medieval Warm Period and Little Ice Age  
Mechanisms of Climate Fluctuation  

42. Greenland Ice Core Record
Figure

43. Astronomical Factors
Figure

44. Vostok Ice Core Record
Present level at 480 ppm (2004)
Figure

45. Greenland and Dome C Ice Cores
Figure FS
Figure FS

46. Arctic and Antarctic Regions
Figure

47. Meltponds in Greenland
Figure NR

48. Meltponds in Greenland
Figure NR

49. Pine Island Glacier
Figure 17.34

50. Ward Hunt Ice Shelf Breakup
Figure HLC

51. Geosystems 6e An Introduction to Physical Geography
End of Chapter 17
Geosystems 6e
An Introduction to Physical Geography
Robert W. Christopherson
Charles E. Thomsen