17.2. Glaciation – Vocabulary
Section 17.0 Introduction
- glacier
- ice
- glacial ice
- climate
- glaciated
- meltwater
Section 17.1 Types of Glaciers
- continental ice sheet
- alpine glacier
- latitude
- topography
- polar region
- snow
- ice sheet
- sea level
- Antarctic Ice Sheet
- Greenland Ice Sheet
- vertical
- horizontal
- ice shelf / ice shelves
- valley glacier
- zone of ablation
- zone of accumulation
- equilibrium line
- temperate region
- tropical region
- slope
- ice surface
- snowfall
- firn
- compress / compressed
- compact / compacted / compaction
- snowflake
- granule
- weld / welded
- percolation
- stress
- brittle
- low pressure
- high pressure
- shallow
- deep
- deform / deformed / deformation
- landform
- ductile deformation
- plastic deformation
- rigid
- kilopascals (kPa)
- flow
- irregularities
- crevasse
- terrain
- velocity
- tension
- basal sliding
- sliding
- freezing point
- internal flow
- basal flow
- friction
- rainwater
- meltwater
- geothermal heat
- insulator
- thrust fault
- sediment
- terminate
- calve / calving
- iceberg
- stationary
- retreat
- melting
- evaporation
- sublimation
- advance
Section 17.2 Glacial erosion
- erosion
- base
- rock fragment
- gouge
- grind
- erosional features
- glacial erosion
- drumlin
- esker
- moraine
- terminal moraine
- floodplain
- kettle lake
- kame
- ground moraine
- Laurentide Ice Sheet
- glacial meltwater
- Glacial Lake Missoula
- outflow
- catastrophe / catastrophic
- valley
- U-shaped valley
- V-shaped valley
- fjord
- tributary valley
- arête
- col
- horn
- ridge
- saddle
- cirque
- tarn
- basin
- hanging valley
- truncated spur
- cliff
- glacial maximum
- nunatak
- roche moutonnée
- outcrop
- low angle slope
- steep slope
- glacial groove
- glacial striation / glacial striae
- glacial polish
- moraine lake
- end moraine
- dam
- glacial till
- rock basin lake
- paternoster lake
- finger lake
Section 17.3 Glacial deposits
- aggregate
- unconsolidated
- transport
- deposit
- icefield
- debris
- supraglacial
- unsorted
- englacial
- end moraine
- terminal moraine
- medial moraine
- subglacial sediment
- lodgement till
- abrasion
- well-compacted sediment
- poorly sorted
- freeze-thaw eroded material
- lateral moraine
- outwash
- outwash sediments
- proglacial region
- fluvial environment
- lacustrine environment
- marine environment
- glaciofluvial sediments
- glacially-derived sediments
- sandur
- outwash plain
- kettle
- pothole lake
- prairie pothole
- subglacial stream
- channel
- drumlin field
- long axis
- proglacial lake
- glaciolacustrine
- glaciomarine
- varve
- laminated
- melt discharge
- drop stone
Section 17.4 Glaciations over Earth’s history
- glacial period
- glaciation
- ice age
- Huronian Glaciation
- Cryogenian Period
- Snowball Earth
- Andean / Saharan Glaciation
- Karoo Glaciation
- Cenozoic Glaciation
- Antarctic Circumpolar Current
- oxygen isotopes
- Earth’s orbit
- Milankovitch Cycles
- orbit
- tilt
- wobble
- cyclical change
- Wisconsinan Glaciation
- Laurentide Ice Sheet
- Cordilleran Ice Sheet
- northern hemisphere
- southern hemisphere
- interglacial ice
- interglacial period
- climate feedback
Other vocabulary
- neve
- recrystallized
- snowline
- high elevation
- low elevation
- high latitude
- low latitude
- glacial plucking
- rock flour
- temperate glacier
- polar glacier
- subpolar glacier
- icecap
- outlet glacier
- mass balance
- terminus
- zone of wastage
- sea ice
- post-glacial sea level rise
- last glacial maximum
- unstratified
- erratic
- glacial retreat
- paleoclimatology / palaeoclimatology
- isotopic fractionation
- atmospheric moisture
- mid-latitudes
- depleted
- condense
- ice core
- geochemical proxy
- Fennoscandian ice sheet
- deglaciation
- bedrock isostatic rebound
- Earth’s axis
- eccentricity
- obliquity
- precession
- Younger Dryas
- orbital forcing
- paleoclimate / palaeoclimate
- thermohaline circulation
