Note - Specific content and topics subject to change

Introduction (1 day)

• Purpose and scope of course
• Relationship to other sciences: Quaternary Geology, Glaciology

Glacial Systems (1 Week)

• Glacial ice - definition - moving, crystal structure
• Glacier types - topographic classification, thermal classification, morphologic classification
• Mass balance and climate change - accumulation, snow to ice, ablation, interrelationships

Glacial Dynamics (1 Week)

• Ice motion - internal deformation, creep, basal sliding, velocity profiles, surges, profiles and flowlines
• Temperature profiles - pressure melting point, conditions allowing it
• Implications for erosion/ deposition

Glacial Erosion-Transportation (1 Week)

• Glacial abrasion, plucking, and quarrying
• Description of features -striations, friction cracks, P-forms, potholes, plucked faces, stoss and lee forms, cirques, glaciated valleys

  Glacial Deformation (former topic incorporated)

• Glacial deformation- processes, strength, stress
• Resulting sediments, landforms- push moraines

Subglacial Deposition (1 Week)

• Processes of deposition
• Lodgement - subglacial flowage, meltout
• Characteristics of deposits - grain size, size sorting, stone shapes, fabric, deformation structures
• Classification of subglacial and englacial deposits - by position, diamicton vs. till
• Landforms of deposition - linear forms, drumlins, streamlined forms, transverse forms, subglacial moraines

Superglacial Deposition (1 Week)

• Processes - melting, mass movements, fluvial
• Characteristics of deposits - poorly sorted, poorly stratified, till- like
• Classification of deposits - by position, by process

Ice-Margin (contact) Deposits (1 Week)

• Landforms of superglacial and ice-contact deposits - parallel, transverse, non-oriented
• Complexity of distribution

Glacial Meltwater (1 Week)

• Processes - subglacial drainage, channel types
• Description of features - channels, spillways, drainage diversions

Glacial Lakes (Glaciolacustrine)

• Glaciofluvial - processes, deposits, classification
• Lacustrine - processes (overflow, interflow, underflow), deposits, classification

Quaternary Stratigraphy(1 Week)

• Principles, ong term events, short term events
• Relationship to cliamte change
• Causes of ice ages (sure)

Topics Covered in past classes, but not in 2000

Proglacial Deposits

• Stratified/ fluvial deposits.
• Wind-related (eolian) - wind processes, wind deposits (if time permits)

Glacial Floods

• Processes
• Products with an example from Iceland