Glacial Landforms Resulting from Erosion and Deposition
Compiled by Mark Francek (more info) at Carleton College (SERC) and Central Michigan University
Find animations presenting how depositional landforms like moraines and outwash plains form. In addition there are animations of the formation of erosional landforms like U-shaped valleys, cirques, and hanging waterfalls. A movie of Greenland uses actual footage to show various erosional landforms. Photographs of glacial landforms are also provided.
Hanging Valley Formation, Wiley (more info) This Flash animation with accompanying audio shows the evolution of an alpine environment from a fluvial V shaped valley landscape to a glaciated U shaped valley landscape. Reestablishment of post glacial streams with hanging valleys follows. The animation loads slowly, particularly for users with slow connections.
Glaciated Landscapes of Greenland, Wiley (more info) Access actual movie footage and accompanying audio of alpine glacial features like arêtes, horns, cols, nunatuks, U-shaped valleys, and fjords. Follow a heavily crevassed ice sheet to ocean where calving occurs. Users with slow connections can expect long loading times.
Illustrated Glossary of Alpine Glacial Landforms, University of Wisconsin Stevens Point (more info) Although there are not a lot of images here, the ones included are succinctly described and have accompanying topographic map examples, allowing students to see the correlation between photo and map. Images are divided into three sections: divided into "Erosional Landforms," "Depositional Landforms," and "Ice Features." Nine short exercises test student knowledge of both glacial landform images and the topographic expression of the landforms.
Glacier Landform Image Database, University of Cincinnati (more info) Find around 200 images from the erosional, subglacial, superglacial, ice-margin, glacial lake, and proglacial environments. Short descriptions accompany each image.
