1 / 34

Understanding Glaciation and Ice Age Features: From Glacial Advances to Mysteries

Explore the fascinating world of glaciation, glacial advances, and the dramatic changes brought by the Ice Age. Discover how ice sheets and glaciers shape our planet, forming unique features like cirques, moraines, and kettle lakes. Delve into erosional processes that create V-shaped and U-shaped valleys, and learn about various glacial deposits and formations such as drumlins and eskers. Join us in solving glacial mysteries through engaging exhibits that challenge your knowledge of these incredible ice age phenomena.

malha
Télécharger la présentation

Understanding Glaciation and Ice Age Features: From Glacial Advances to Mysteries

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. GlaciationA Cool Topic!

  2. Ice Age

  3. Where Are They Now?

  4. Ice Sheets/Continental Glacier

  5. Ice Shelf

  6. Ice Sheet Calving

  7. Alpine Glaciers

  8. DELTA

  9. The Movement of Ice: Advance, Retreat, Stationary

  10. Glacial Advance & Retreat: How it Works

  11. Erosion: Striations

  12. Erosion: Valleys V-Shaped Valley - Before U-Shaped Valley - After

  13. Deposits: Moraines

  14. GLACIAL MYSTERY TIME! Can you guess the following glacial features?

  15. Exhibit A: A Cirque

  16. Cirques, Tarns and Aretes

  17. Exhibit B:– A Horn – The Matterhorn, Switzerland

  18. Exhibit C: Drumlins

  19. Exhibit D: Eskers

  20. How Eskers Form

  21. Exhibit E: A Misfit Stream

  22. Exhibit F: Erratic An Erratic

  23. Exhibit G: Kettle Lakes Kettle Lakes

  24. Exhibit H: Tarn A Tarn

  25. Creation of a Cirque and Tarn

  26. Exhibit I: Outwash Plain A Braided Stream

  27. Exhibit J: An Outwash Plain

More Related