Topic

Reading

Assignment

• Bennett & Glasser, Ch. 1

Glacier Characteristics

• Anderson & Borns, Ch. 3 pp. 105-110
• Alean, J. & M. Hambrey (9/10/06 last update) Glaciers Online. Read the links to "Introducting Glaciers" and "The Glacier Family."

Finish Glacier Characteristics

Glacier Flow

• Bennett & Glasser, Ch. 3, sections 3.3 & 3.5; skim section 3.4
• Antarctica's Spectacular Rivers of Ice. Space Daily, 10.20.99.
• Alean, J. & M. Hambrey (9/10/06 last update) Glaciers Online. Read the link to "Living Ice."

Finish Glacier Flow

Glacial Mass Balance

• Helgi Björnsson (1998) Hydrological characteristics of the drainage system beneath a surging glacier. Nature 395, 771-774 (22 October 1998) | doi:10.1038/27384.
• R. Pierrehumbert (2005) Tropical Glacier Retreat. Real Climate.
• Bennett & Glasser, Ch. 3, sections 3.1-3.2

Glacial Mass Balance

• USGS (2003) Glacier Retreat in Glacier National Park, Montana. USGS/Northern Rocky Mountain Science Center.

Glacial Meltwater Processes

• Bennett & Glasser, Ch. 4

Video: Descent Into the Ice

• "Descent Into the Ice". There's links to some very good satellite photos of glaciers and an associated discussion of glacial hazards, as well as a discussion of retreating glaciers world-wide.

Meltwater Deposits & Landforms

• Bennett & Glasser, Ch. 8, section 8.2 and Ch. 10, section 10.1

Video: Warnings from the Ice

Warnings from the Ice: Antarctic Almanac and Water World.

Glacial Lake Wisconsin

Glacial Erosion

Bennett & Glasser, Ch. 5

Alley, R.B. et al. (2003) Stabilizing feedbacks in glacier-bed erosion. Nature, 424:758-760.

Bennett & Glasser, Ch. 6

Anderson & Borns, Ch. 3 pp. 110-119

Erosional Landforms

Glasser, N.F. & M.R. Bennett (2004) Glacial erosional landforms: origins and significance for palaeoglaciology. Progress in Physical Geography, 28:43-75.
DOI: 10.1191/0309133304pp401ra

Glacial Debris Transport

Bennett & Glasser, Ch. 7

Glacial Deposition & Till Characteristics

Bennett & Glasser, Ch. 8

Bennett & Glasser, Ch. 9

Anderson & Borns, Ch. 3 pp. 119-126

Depositional Landforms

Covers all material from 2/27 through 4/3

Work on assignment

Clayton, L. et al. (2006) Glaciation of Wisconsin. Wisconsin Geological and Natural History Survey, Educational Series 36.

Syverson, K.M. & P.M. Colgan (2004) The Quaternary of Wisconsin: a review of stratigraphy and glaciation history. In J. Ehlers & P.L. Gibbard (eds) Quaternary Glaciations - Extent and Chronology, Part II, Elsevier, pp. 295-311. (On E-reserve at the UWSP library)

Mickelson, D.M. & P.M. Colgan (2003) The southern Laurentide Ice Sheet. Development in Quaternary Science, Vol. 1.

Anderson & Borns, Ch. 3: Field & Laboratory Methods, pp. 144-158; associated references in the Extended Glossary

Anderson & Borns, Ch. 1

Brigham-Grette, J. (1996) Geochronology of glacial deposits, in: J. Menzies (ed) Past Glacial Environments: Sediments, Forms and Techniques, pp. 377-410. (On E-reserve at the UWSP library)

Anderson & Borns, Ch. 2

Bennett & Glasser, Ch. 2

Anderson & Borns, Ch. 2

Bennett & Glasser, Ch. 2

Readings:

Attig, J.W. (1986) Glacial geology of the Kettle Moraine, in The Kettle Moraine State Forest Turns Gold, Wisconsin DNR, pp. 17-19.

Attig, Mickelson & Clayton (1989) Late Wisconsin landform distribution and glacier-bed conditions in Wisconsin. Sedimentary Geology, 62:399-405. (On E-reserve at the UWSP library)

National Park Service (2005) Geology of Ice Age National Scientific Reserve of Wisconsin, National Park Service Scientific Monograph Series #2. Chapter 4: Northern Kettle Interlobate Moraine.

Carlson, A.E., D.M. Mickelson, S.M. Principato, and D.M. Chapel (2005) The genesis of the northern Kettle Moraine, Wisconsin. Geomorphology, 67(3-4):365-374.

Causes of Glaciation

Video: Cracking the Ice Age

Bennett & Glasser, Ch. 2

Driscoll, N.W. & G.H. Haug (1998) A short circuit in thermohaline circulation: a cause for northern hemisphere glaciation? Science, 282:436-438. (On E-reserve at the UWSP library)

Illinois State Museum (last modified Jan. 4, 2002) Ice Ages.

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