Animated Glaciers
Click here to see an animation showing the processes by which glaciers flow.
Click here to view an animation showing the formation and closure of crevasses on the surface of a glacier.
Click here to see an animation demonstrating the annual glacial budget including accumulation, ablation and the equilibrium line.Click here to see an animation showing how a positive mass balance can lead to an advancing glacier. Additional inset animations demonstrate the process of plucking and the formation of terminal moraines.
Click here to find out about the movement of ice within large polar glaciers such as those in Antarctica or Greenland.From the Quaternary GIS Library at INSTAAR at the University of Colorado, is a good animation showing rising sea level over the Bering Sea (External Link) during the last 21,000. It illustrates the previous Bering Land Bridge and its subsequent inundation.
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Last modified: Friday, 15 May 2009, 08:55 AM