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Chapter 22
Glaciers and Ice Ages
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Chapter 22
Outline• Ice and glacial ice, glaciers and their formation.
• Glaciers-Types: mountain and continental-Thermal categories: temperate and polar-Ice movement, glacial advance & retreat-Ice in the sea
• Effects of glaciers:-Erosion, sediment transport, deposition-Depositional landforms
• Glaciation-Theory of glaciation and ice ages-Subsidence & rebound, sea level change, drainage modification.-The Pleistocene Glaciation and earlier ones-Causes
Chapter 22
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Chapter 22
Ice: The Water Mineral• Ice is solid water (H2O).
• Forms when water cools below freezing point.• Natural ice is a mineral; grows in hexagonal forms.
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Chapter 22
Formation of Glacial Ice
• Snow is transformed into ice.• Flakes accumulate.• Buried by later falls. • Compression expels air. • Pressure causes melting &
recrystallization. • Snow turns into granular firn.• Over time, firn melds into
interlocking crystals of ice.
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Chapter 22
Glaciers & Their Formation• Thick masses of recrystallized (glacial) ice.
• Last all year long, flow via gravity.
• 3 conditions necessary:• Cold local climate• Snow must be abundant; more snow must fall than melts• Snow must not be removed by avalanches or wind
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Chapter 22
Forming a Glacier
• Glacier-sustaining elevation is latitude controlled• Polar regions -> glaciers form at sea level• Equatorial regions -> glaciers form >5km elevation
• This elevation is marked by the “snow line”
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Chapter 22
Outline• Ice and glacial ice, glaciers and their formation.
• Glaciers-Types: mountain and continental-Thermal categories: temperate and polar-Ice movement, glacial advance & retreat-Ice in the sea
• Effects of glaciers:-Erosion, sediment transport, deposition-Depositional landforms
• Glaciation-Theory of glaciation and ice ages-Subsidence & rebound, sea level change, drainage modification.-The Pleistocene Glaciation and earlier ones-Causes
Chapter 22
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Chapter 22
Glaciers
2 main types: Continental and mountain.
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Chapter 22
Mountain Glaciers• Flow from high to low elevation in mountains• Include a variety of types.
• Ice caps cover mountain peaks• Cirque glaciers fill mountain top bowls
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Chapter 22
Mountain Glaciers
• Valley glaciers flow like rivers down valleys
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Chapter 22
Mountain Glaciers• Piedmont glaciers spread out at valley terminus
Greenland
Alaska
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Chapter 22
Continental Glaciers• Ice sheets covering large land areas.• Flows outward from thickest portion• 2 major ice sheets on Earth:
Greenland, Antarctica
Minor: Iceland
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Chapter 22
Thermal Categories
• Used to classify glaciers; determined by climate.• Temperate glaciers – ice at/near melting temperature• Polar glaciers – ice well below melting temperature
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Chapter 22
Glacial Ice Movement• How do glaciers move?
• Wet-bottom glaciers – water flows along base• Basal sliding – ice slips over a meltwater/sediment slurry
• Dry-bottom glaciers – cold base is frozen to substrate• Movement is by internal plastic deformation of the ice
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Chapter 22
Glacial Ice Movement• 2 types of mechanical behavior.
• Brittle – Uppermost 60 m• Tension initiates cracking• Crevasses open and close with movement
• Plastic – Lower than 60 m• Ductile flow occurs in deeper ice• Ice flow heals cracks
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Chapter 22
• Ice flows downhill via gravity. • Gravity (g) can be resolved into 2 vectors
• Parallel to slope component (gs) drives flow
Glacial Ice Movement
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Chapter 22
• Ice flows downhill via gravity. • Ice flows from thickest part of continental glaciers
• Analogous to honey flowing…
Glacial Ice Movement
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Chapter 22
• Variable flow rates (10 to 300 m/yr). • Rarely, glaciers surge (20 to 110 m/day)• Flow rate controlled by:
• Slope -> steeper = faster• Basal water: wet-bottom = faster• Location within glacier
• Greater velocity in ice center• Friction slows ice at margins
Glacial Ice Movement
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Chapter 22
• Glaciers behave like bank accounts• Accumulation zone – Area of new snow addition
• Colder T prevent melting• Snow remains even in summer
• Ablation zone – Area of net ice loss• Zones abut at equilibrium line
Glacial Advance and Retreat
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Chapter 22
Glacial Advance and Retreat• Toe (leading edge) position:
• If accumulation = ablation the toe is stable
Note curved path of ice flow.
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Chapter 22
Glacial Advance and Retreat
• Toe position:• If accumulation < ablation, toe retreats upslope
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Chapter 22
Glacial Advance and Retreat
• Toe position:• If accumulation > ablation, the toe advances
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Chapter 22
Glacial Advance and Retreat
Glacial advance and retreat is determined by the balance between the accumulation of snow and the removal of ice by sublimation, melting, and calving (ablation). When the rate of ablation below the snowline equals the rate of accumulation above it, the glacier is stationary, as in View 1. During glacial retreat, View 2, the rate of ablation exceeds the rate of accumulation, and the position of the toe retreats toward the origin of the glacier. Glacial advance, View 3, occurs when the rate of accumulation exceeds the rate of ablation. For all views, pay attention to the motion of the stones. Note that in all cases, ice flows downhill. For more information, see Section 22.2 Ice and the Nature of Glaciers starting on p. 758 and Figure 22.14 on p. 768 in your textbook.
Glacial Advance and Retreat
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Chapter 22
Ice in the Sea• In polar regions, glaciers flow out over ocean water.
• Tidewater glaciers – valley glaciers entering sea• Ice shelves – continental glaciers entering sea• Sea ice – non-glacial ice formed on frozen seawater
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Chapter 22
Ice in the Sea• Large areas of the polar seas are covered with ice.
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Chapter 22
Ice in the Sea
• Marine glaciers have both grounded and floating ice• Ice debris calves off edge forming icebergs
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Chapter 22
Outline• Ice and glacial ice, glaciers and their formation.
• Glaciers-Types: mountain and continental-Thermal categories: temperate and polar-Ice movement, glacial advance & retreat-Ice in the sea
• Effects of glaciers:-Erosion, sediment transport, deposition-Depositional landforms
• Glaciation-Theory of glaciation and ice ages-Subsidence & rebound, sea level change, drainage modification.-The Pleistocene Glaciation and earlier ones-Causes
Chapter 22
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Chapter 22
Glacial Erosion• Glaciers erode substrates in
1. Incorporation – rock surrounded and carried off
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Chapter 22
Glacial Erosion
2. Plucking – ice breaks off and removes bedrock fragments• Ice melts by pressure against up-ice side of obstruction• Enters cracks in bedrock, water re-freezes to the ice• Glacial movement “plucks” away bedrock chunks
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Chapter 22
Glacial Erosion3. Abrasion – a “sandpaper” effect on substrate
• Rock fragments in moving ice abrades and polishes bedrock• Leaves scratches called striations
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Chapter 22
• Various erosional features of glaciated valleys.Glacial Erosion
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Chapter 22
Glacial Erosion
• Cirque – bowl-shaped basin near mountain top• Forms at uppermost portion of valley• Erosion at glacier base over-steepens into bowl• After ice melts, cirque is often filled with a lake (tarn)
Glacier, Nat’l Park, MT
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Chapter 22
Glacial Erosion• Arête – a “knife-edge” ridge
• Formed by 2 adjacent cirques or • Valley glaciers
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Chapter 22
Glacial Erosion• Horn – a pointed mountain peak
• Formed by 3 or more cirques that coalesce
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Chapter 22
Glacial Erosion
• U-shaped valleys.• Glacial erosion creates
very steep walls• Unlike V-shaped fluvial
valleys
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Chapter 22
Glacial Erosion• Hanging valleys.
• -Intersection of tributary glacier• With trunk glacier• -Trunk glacier incises deeper• -Trough bases at different• -Elevations• -A waterfall results
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Chapter 22
Glacial Sediment Transport
• Glaciers carry sediment of all sizes (lots of it!)• Some falls onto from adjacent cliffs• Some entrained from substrate erosion
• When ice melts, material is dropped
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Chapter 22
Glacial Sediment Transport
• Moraines – unsorted debris carried/dumped by glaciers• Lateral – along valley glacier flank• Medial – mid-ice merging lateral moraines
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Chapter 22
Glacial Sediment Transport• Glaciers are large-scale conveyor belts
• Pick up, transport, deposit sediment. • Transport is always downhill• Debris at toe is an end moraine
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Chapter 22
Glacial Deposition• Many sediment types derive from glaciation.• Called glacial drift, these include...
• Till.• Erratics.• Marine sediments.• Outwash.• Others (lake seds, loess)
• Stratified drift is water-
sorted; unstratified drift
isn’t.
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Chapter 22
Glacial Deposition• Glacial till – Sediment dropped by glacial ice.
• Consists of all grain sizes• Unmodified by liquid water, hence:
• Unsorted • Unstratified
• Accumulates…• Beneath glacial ice• At glacial toe• Along glacial flanks
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Chapter 22
Glacial Deposition• Erratics – boulders dropped by glacial ice
• Different than underlying bedrock• Often carried from long distances
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Chapter 22
Glacial Deposition
• Glacial marine – sediments from an oceanic glacier• Calving icebergs raft sediments away from ice• Melting bergs drop stones into marine muds• Dropstones…
• Differ from ambient sediment• Indicate glaciation
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Chapter 22
Glacial Deposition
• Glacial outwash – sediment transported in meltwater • Muds removed• Abraded and rounded• Dominated by sand and gravel
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Chapter 22
Depositional Landforms
• Glacial sediments create distinctive landforms.• Moraines.• Drumlins.• Ground moraine.• Kettle lakes.• Eskers.
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Chapter 22
Depositional Landforms• End moraines form at stable glacier toe• Terminal moraines form at farthest edge of flow• Recessional moraines form as retreating ice stalls
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Chapter 22
Depositional Landforms
• Drumlins – long aligned hills of molded till• Asymmetric form – steep up-ice; tapered down-ice• Aligned parallel to ice flow direction
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Chapter 22
Depositional Landforms
• Eskers – long, sinuous ridges of land and gravel• Form from meltwater channels below ice
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Chapter 22
Outline• Ice and glacial ice, glaciers and their formation.
• Glaciers-Types: mountain and continental-Thermal categories: temperate and polar-Ice movement, glacial advance & retreat-Ice in the sea
• Effects of glaciers:-Erosion, sediment transport, deposition-Depositional landforms
• Glaciation-Theory of glaciation and ice ages-Subsidence & rebound, sea level change, drainage modification.-The Pleistocene Glaciation and earlier ones-Causes
Chapter 22
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Chapter 22
The Theory of Glaciation• European farmers broke plows on large rocks.
• Buried in fine-grained soils, often of enormous size. • Unlike local bedrock, they were from 100s of km away.
• Rocks became known as erratics• Origins were a mystery…
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Chapter 22
The Theory of Glaciation• Louis Agassiz, a Swiss geologist, observed glaciers.
• Saw glaciers as landscape change agents• They carried snad, mud, huge boulders long distances• They dropped these materials, unsorted, upon melting
• Realized glaciers could explain the erratics
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Chapter 22
The Theory of Glaciation
• Agassiz proposed an ice age had frozen Europe• Ice sheets covered land• Ice carried and dropped…
• Erratics and• Unsorted soil (till)
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Chapter 22
Ice Ages• Glaciers presently cover ~10% of Earth• During ice ages, coverage expands to ~30%• Most recent ice age ended ~11 kyrs ago
• Covered New York, Montreal, London, Paris, Seattle• Ice sheets were 100s to 1,000s of m thick.
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Chapter 22
Glacial Consequences
• Subsidence & rebound.• -Ice sheets depress lithosphere
into mantle• -Subsidence follows
asthenosphere flow• -Ice melts, depressed
lithosphere rebounds• -Continues slowly today
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Chapter 22
Glacial Consequences• Sea level changes due to ice ages
• Water stored on land during ice age –> sea level fall• Deglaciation returns water to oceans –> sea level rise• Sea level was ~100 m lower during last glacial maximum
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Chapter 22
Glacial Consequences
• Can cause drainage basin reorganization.• N. America: Glaciation completely changed drainage.
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Chapter 22
The Pleistocene Glaciation
• Young (< 2 Ma) glacial remnants are abundant.• North America• Scandanavia and Europe• Siberia
• Distinctive glacial landscapes.
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Chapter 22
The Pleistocene Glaciation• Glaciation chronology.
• Several Pleistocene glacial advances• In North America, 4 recognized – youngest to oldest…
• Wisconsinan, Illinoian, Kansan, Nebraskan
• Ice ages are separated
by interglacials
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Chapter 22
The Pleistocene Glaciation
• Glaciation chronology.• Oxygen isotopes from plankton
suggest more ice ages• They reveal 20 or more
glaciations
• Higher 18O/16O = colder.• Lower 18O/16O = warmer.
• The “original 4” ice ages
may simply be the largest
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Chapter 22
Earlier Glaciations• Glaciation recurs across Earth history. • Evidence? Fossil til (tillite), striated bedrock
• Tillite at equatorial latitiudes suggest an ice-covered world: Snowball Earth
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Chapter 22
Causes of Glaciation• Long-term causes – set stage for ice ages
1. Plate tectonics – controls factors that influence glaciation• Continents at high latitudes• Sea level flux by mid-ocean ridge volume changes• Oceanic currents
2. Atmospheric chemistry.• Changes in greenhouse gas concentrations
• Carbon dioxide (CO2)
• Methane (CH4)
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Chapter 22
Causes of Glaciation
• Short-term causes – govern advances and retreats• Milankovitch cycles – climate variation over 10-100s kyrs
predicted by cyclic changes in orbital geometry1. Earth’s orbit shape varies (~100,000 year cyclicity)
2. Earth’s axis tilt caries from 22.5degrees to 24.5degrees (~41,000 years)
3. Earth’s axis wobbles (23,000 years)
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Chapter 22
Causes of Glaciation• Milankovitch – cyclic changes in orbital geometry.
• Variations lead to excess warming/cooling.• Ice ages result when cooling effects coincide.