Ice and a slice of history.(Brief Article)

From: Geographical | Date: January 1, 2000| Author: | Copyright information

Nick Middleton explains how piles of rocks and upturned baskets of eggs can tell us where rivers of ice once carved their way through the landscape

Most people remember something about glaciation from their geography lessons at school. The study of glaciers, `glaciology', is packed with exotic sounding terms like firn, cirque and drumlin. The word `glacier' is used for any large mass of ice built up from snow that falls in an upland area and then flows downslope under the influence of gravity. The word itself is derived from the Latin for ice glacies, and its French ...

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