Glaciers

Factors affecting the snow line?

How glaciers form...

First stage of glacier formation

Second stage...

Third stage...

Alpine glacier/ warm glacier?

Polar glacier/ cold

Valley glacier

Piedmont glacier

Niche glacier

Ice caps

ice shelf

Why does a glacier move at different speeds?

Main factors affecting ice movement?

type and rate of movement in a glacier

why does the bottom layer of glacial ice turn blue/ green?

how do glaciers move?

Basal flow/ sliding?

Internal flow/ internal deformation

Creep

Surges

extended flow

Compressing flow

Rotational flow

INPUTS

TRANSFERS
STORED
PROCESSES

OUTPUTS

Zone of accumulation

Zone of ablation