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Managing glaciated landscapes
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Threats to glaciated landscapes
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Value of Glaciated landscapes
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Relict landscapes reveal the extent of past ice cover
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Features vary in scale
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Different landforms are associated different parts ice mass
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Periglacial processes create distinctive landforms
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Periglacial processes include mass movement and erosion
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Periglacial landscapes are found at high latitudes
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Periglacial landscapes have special characteristics
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Meltwater flow beyond edge ice extent proglacial landscapes
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Contact melting ice creates eskers, kames, kame terraces
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Fluvioglacial deposits come from glacial meltwater
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There are 3 ways that meltwater moves through glacial system
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Some depositional features found in lowland upland areas
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Different types depositional features found lowland areas
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Drums are half egg shaped hills of tills
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There are different types of moraine formations
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Moraines and drumlins form in areas previously covered ice
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Different factors affect the rate of glacial deposition
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Glaciers deposit their load as they move and melt
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Debris can be transported in different parts of the glacier
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Scouring by ice sheets creates different types of landforms
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Glacial erosion leads to the formation particular landforms
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Freeze thaw weathering and mass movement can erode rock too
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Glaciers erode in different ways
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Entrainment is rock debris is picked up merg into a glacier
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Glaciers shape the landscape through erosion
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Positive and negative feedbacks affect glacial movement
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Variations in mass balance affect rate of glacial movement
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Extensional and compressional flow
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Glaciers move downhill under their own weight
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Glaciers can be polar or temperate
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Glaciers lose mass through ablation
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Glaciers mass through snowfall, avalanches, wind deposition
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The glacial mass balance changes over time
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Glaciers can give information about climate change
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Glaciers can be in dynamic equilibrium
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The glacial mass balance relationship inputs outputs
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Glaciers are systems
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Relict glacial landscapes show which areas had ice cover
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Temperature environments may have ice masses high altitudes
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Ice sheets are found in polar environments
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There are different types of ice masses in the cryosphere
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The Cryosphere plays an important role in global systems
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Another example is the Loch Lomond Stadial
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The Little Ice Age is example of short lived climate change
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Solar output volcanic eruptions short term climate change
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Long term factors climate change are by Milankovitch cycles
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There have been glacial interglacial periods in pleistocene
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The earth's climate has changed many times
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