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Chapter 4 Glaciation
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Glacier Project
home page:
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A
seriously good, large site! All about Antarctica, its glaciers and
ice sheets, the part it plays in our global system of weather and
climate, oceans and geology and what it’s like to live there
– for plants, animals and people.
http://www.glacier.rice.edu |
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Glaciers:
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A US site
for intermediate–advanced geography students, links to Canada’s
Whistler/Blackcomb Mountains Resort site, high in the coastal mountain
range of British Columbia, Canada. Click on the site guide for access
to interactive statistics and facts on the mountains, their weather,
snow, glaciers and resort history; explore the interactive trail map;
photos; and a guide to leisure facilities.
http://www.educ.wsu.edu/esl/glacier.html |
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Cyberspace Snow
and Avalanche Center–CSAC:
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A major
avalanche resource. Gives details of current snow conditions and snow
forecasts, by country (includes Scotland). The Avalanche Education
Center section contains an extensive list of educational resources
including articles on avalanches, methods of testing snow stability,
avalanche danger scales and quizes to test avalanche knowledge. The
Downloads section includes posters, danger scales, snow and ice data
recording sheets, etc. The Pressroom section contains avalanche statistics,
details of seasonal hazards and a glossary of avalanche and snow terminology;
plus avalanche incident reports (recent and historical).
http://www.csac.org/ |
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Larsen
ice-shelf, Antarctica:
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A summary of changes to the Larsen iceshelf from 1996 onwards, related
to the broader question of the changing Antarctic ice mass (links
to British Antarctic Survey, imagery and other sites).
http://www.nbs.ac.uk/public/icd/bas_publ.html |
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