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Glacial and Periglacial Landscapes
Objectives
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After reading Chapter 14 you should be able to:
- Differentiate between alpine and continental glaciers and describe their principal features.
- Describe the process of glacial ice formation and portray the mechanics of glacial movement.
- Describe characteristic erosional and depositional landforms created by alpine glaciation and continental glaciation.
- Analyze the spatial distribution of periglacial processes and describe several unique landforms and topographic features related to permaforst and frozen ground phenomena.
- Explain the Pleistocene ice age epoch and related glacials and interglacials and describe some of the methods used to study paleoclimatology.
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