Ice-Margin (contact)

Why? 

 Objective: Integrate past lessons, think about landforms.
 Skills: Visual observation, Integration

Resources

 Tasks

 Reading:

Benn and Evans Sections 7.1-7.4 and 11.3, 11.4

(Optional, but strongly suggested)

Lawson, D.E., Sedimentological analysis of the western terminus region of the Matanuska Glacier, Alaska, CRREL Report 79-9. Chap 6.

Kruger, J., 1993, Moraine-ridge formation along a stationary ice from in Iceland, Boreas, v. 22, p. 101-109.

 

 Questions:

2001 - modification of icexamp.html

2000 - Same as 1997 - just print out the pdf file and label it - simple

If you want more (30 pts) - print out this file and suggest how the Cuba Moraine formed - and rather the rate for that processes is sufficient given the chronology.

1999 Ice Contact Homework

1998 Iceland Ice Margin Examples

 

1997 Homework for Reference

Glacial Geology All Day Field Trip 1997

 

 Lecture:

Moraine Formation PDF

Melt out PDF (old lecture)

Some new lecture stuff

2000 - ice thrust

 Data Collection:

Air Photographs of modern glacier margins

 Study Images:

Some will be more helpful than others, but all features are shown someplace.

Ice Margin Processes

Ice Margin Deposits

Ice Margin Landforms

Lecture 8A - Processes and Landforms

Lecture 8B- Landscapes Images

Lecture 8C -Kettles

 Data Reduction:

To Be Posted

Project 1: Anderson Sections Write Up

 Data Reporting:

 


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