Name of Module: Illustrated Glossary of Alpine Glacial Landforms

Module Begins at URL: http://www.uwsp.edu/geo/faculty/lemke/alpine_glacial_glossary/index.html

Key words used in Index: alpine glacial landforms, glaciers, landforms

Index words: alpine, glaciation, alpine glaciation, glacial landforms, glaciers, physical geography, geography, landforms, geomorphology, geology

Recommended prerequisite modules: none

Recommended subsequent modules:

• Virtual Tour of Mendenhall Glacier (http://www.snowcrest.net/geography/field/mendenhall/index.html)
• Glacier National Park Virtual Field Trip (http://www.uwsp.edu/geo/faculty/lemke/gnp_vft/home.html)

Author's name: Karen A. Lemke

Author's email: klemke@uwsp.edu

Contributors to this module:

• J. (Drew) A. Hyatt (photos from Canada)
• Linda Freeman (freemanl@snowcrest.net) College of the Siskiyous Physical Geography (coauthor on earlier editions of this module; photos of crevasses, ice fall, medial moraine, ogives)
• Bob Ford (r-ford@wcslc.edu) Westminster College of Salt Lake City (photos of striations, crevasses and icefall)
• Amy Harris (photos of valley glacier and medial moraines)
• N.C. Heywood (nheywood@uwsp.edu) University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point (photos of Isabelle Glacier)
• Randy Schukar, Stevens Point, WI (photos of cirque, cols, headwall, tarn, U-shaped valley, ground moraine, lateral moraine)
• Tom Detwyler (photos from New Zealand and Alaska)

Working Group affiliation and contacts: Physical Geography Working Group, John D. Althausen, Jr.

Creation Date of Module: June 4, 1997

Revision history: March 1998, April 1998, May 1998, June 1998, March 1999, December 1999, November 2001, December 2001, January 2002.