EAPS 10200 Lecture 6: EAPS 102 WEEK.6 GLACIATION

• School: Purdue University
• Department: Earth Atmos Planetary Sci
• Course: EAPS 10200
• Professor: Professor Balloti

Document Summary

Glaciation: glaciation (or glacial period) describes a period of time when colder temperatures dominated a large portion of the surface of the earth resulting in thick section of ice covering the surface. Interglacial periods mark times of warmer climates between glacial periods: a time period when there were no glaciers can be considered a greenhouse climate state. Glacier: however, glaciers have most likely always been present in some form at high altitudes. Glacier a glacier is a thick persistent body of dense ice that moves under its own weight due to gravity: there are two basic types of glaciers. Thick sheets of semipermanent ice that cover large sections of the surface are called continental glaciers. Today these glaciers are limited to the polar ice caps and near polar regions like greenland and patagonia: glaciers that cover high mountain tops and act to weather and erode them are called. Alpine glaciers: glacier is essentially a river of moving ice.