There are several resources available for teaching about glacial geomorphology using a GIS. Younger Dryas Glacial Map The Younger Dryas Glacial Map was created by Bethan Davies and Hannah Bickerdike. There are a host of supporting resources and activities on the Younger Dryas pages of this website. The Younger Dryas Glacial Map is a fully […]
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As a Geography Teacher, you may want to lead field trips for your students. If you are looking for inspiration, then the Quaternary Research Association has a series of field guides available for purchase from their website. They are affordable and cover many areas of the UK. The QRA is the UK organisation for the
Virtual Glaciers and Glaciated Landscapes is an excellently well presented website that uses state of the art panoramic imagery combined with Google Maps to allow teachers and students to explore both ancient British and European glaciers. Students can walk up to the glacier snout, climb the glacier, and work through a series of resources aimed
OGGM-edu: Glacier interactive apps The Open Global Glacier Model (OGGM) edu has a series of interactive apps and notebooks suitable for students of different levels. They provide a series of tolls for instructors to use in practical classes. The tools can be run on any computer and do not require any software to be downloaded.
What is the Loch Lomond Stadial? The final stage of the British-Irish Ice Sheet is known as the Loch Lomond Stadial, the Loch Lomond Readvance or Younger Dryas Stadial1. In Ireland, it is known as the Nahanagan Stadial. The Loch Lomond Stadial was a period of glacial readvance during the overall shrinking of the British-Irish
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What is a glacial erratic? Glacial erratics, often simply called erratics, or erratic boulders, are rocks that have been transported by ice and deposited elsewhere. The type of rock (lithology) that the glacial erratic is made from is different to the lithology of the bedrock where the erratic is deposited. For example, an erratic could
In this interactive map, you can explore all the glacial landforms and chronologies that were used to generate the new reconstructions of the last Patagonian Ice Sheet from 35,000 years ago to the present day. Click the PATICE logo below to launch the online interactive webmap. The GIF below shows the extent of the ice
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PATICE: The Patagonian Ice Sheet from 35,000 years ago to the present day This page provides a brand-new reconstruction of the Patagonian Ice Sheet from 35,000 years ago to the present day (called PATICE). PATICE is a new compilation of published ages and geomorphology, ranked and assessed and recalibrated, which we use to generate new
Other relevant articles Glacial Cirques in Snowdonia Upland Cirque Glacier Landsystem in Britain Alpine Icefield landsystem of upland Britain Plateau Icefield Landsystem of the UK Glacial erratics Videos This GIF shows the evolution of the Scandinavian Ice Sheet (of which Britain was a part). This animation is based on an ice-sheet reconstruction using glacial geomorphology
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What is glacier mass balance? The Mass balance of a glacier can be thought of as the health of a glacier. Mass balance is the total sum of all the accumulation (snow, ice, freezing rain) and melt or ice loss (from calving icebergs, melting, sublimation) across the entire glacier. If glaciers have a mass balance
