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Glaciers

Adjust mountain snowfall and temperature to see the glacier grow and shrink. Use scientific tools to measure thickness, velocity and glacial budget.

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Topics

Main Topics

  • glacier advance and retreat
  • climate's influence on glacier state

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Sample Learning Goals

  • Explain how environmental conditions (temperature and precipitation) impact glacial mass budget; identify where snow accumulates in a glacier and justify why.
  • Explain how ice moves within a glacier; describe and illustrate flow within a glacier.
  • Explain or illustrate (demonstrate) how glaciers (i) stay at equilibrium, (ii) grow/advance, (iii) shrink/retreat, and (iv) form; compare climatic conditions leading to each.
  • Determine and illustrate how multiple advance-retreat cycles affect the record of glacial end moraines.

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Glaciers Earth Science Image of Gold StarR. TucekHSLab6/09

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Microsoft Windows XP/Vista/7
Sun Java 1.5.0_15 or later
 OS 10.4.11 or later
Apple Java 1.5.0_19 or later
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Credits

Design Team Third-party Libraries Thanks To
  • Wendy Adams
  • Bob Anderson
  • Andrea Blair
  • Chris Malley (developer)
  • Archie Paulson (lead)
  • Kathy Perkins
  • Dylan Ward
  • JFreeChart
  • Piccolo
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