Organize

Learn

Connect

Instructors now have an easy way to collect students’ online quizzes with the Norton Gradebook without flooding their inboxes with e-mails.

Students can track their online quiz scores by setting up their own Student Gradebook.

Chapter 22: Amazing Ice: Glaciers and Ice Ages

Geotours

Download Geotours.

Getting Started :

If you haven’t done it already, download Google Earth™ and install it on your computer.
If you haven’t done it already, download the Geotours.kmz file and save a copy to your desktop. (The Geotours.kmz file contains the Geotours for all chapters, so you only need to download this once!)
By downloading Geotours.kmz you acknowledge that it was created solely to accompany Steve Marshak's Earth: Portrait of a Planet and Essentials of Geology and is limited to use with only Steve Marshak's Earth: Portrait of a Planet and Essentials of Geology and may not be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form by any means for any other purpose without the written permission of the publisher.
Double-click the Geotours.kmz file and Google Earth™ will open automatically.
In the left-hand sidebar you will see a Places menu, and in the Temporary Places folder you will see an EARTH_3e.kmz file. Double-click the file and you will see a list of Geotours for each chapter.
Then open the Geotour folder you want to explore! If you’d like to read more about the features of Geotours see Using Geotours, or go to our Helpful Resources section.

STOPS ON GEOTOUR 22: Glacial Landscapes

Continental Glacier, Antarctica

See also Worksheet Problem 1

Greenland and the Arctic Ocean
Southern Tip of Greenland
Baffin Island, Canada

See also Worksheet Problems 2-3

Matterhorn, Switzerland

See also Worksheet Problem 4

Malaspina Glacier Area, Alaska

See also Worksheet Problems 5-6

Glaciated Peaks, Montana

See also "What a Geologist Sees" Geofeatures: Truncated Spur, two U-shaped Valleys, two Cols, three Cirques, Horn, and two Arretes

Sierra Nevada, California

See also Worksheet Problem 7

Pluvial Lake Shore, Salt Lake City, Utah

GEOTOUR 22 WORKSHEET

On Google Earth^TM imagery you can easily spot glacial erosional and depositional features. At high latitudes and/or elevations you can still see glacial ice.

Continental Glacier, Antarctica
1. Double-click and check the box next to the placemark labeled Problem 1. You’ll fly to an area in West Antarctica. One of the present global concerns is the breakup and melting of glaciers and ice shelves in Antarctica due to global warming. In order to get a sense of the scale of some of these icebergs that are calving off from the main ice shelf, use the Measuring Tool to measure (in km) the long axis of the iceberg highlighted by the placemark for Problem 1.

Baffin Island, Canada
2. Double-click and check the box next to one of the placemarks labeled Problem 2. Identify the landforms highlighted by the Problem 2a and b placemarks.

3. Double-click and check the box next to the placemark labeled Problem 3. What type of valley glacier is this glacier?

Matterhorn, Switzerland
4. Double-click and check the box next to one of the placemarks labeled Problem 4. Identify the alpine glacial landforms highlighted by the placemarks.

Malaspina Glacier Area, Alaska
5. Double-click and check the box next to the path labeled Problem 5. You will fly to the eastern side of the Malaspina Glacier, where numerous large-scale folds exist in the glacier as outlined by the morainal material.

(a) What does the geometry of the folds indicates has happened along the red boundary?

(b) What evidence do you see that supports this interpretation?

6. Double-click and check the box next to one of the placemarks labeled Problem 6. Identify the landforms highlighted by the placemarks for Problem 6a and b.

Sierra Nevada, California
7. Double-click and check the box next to one of the placemarks labeled Problem 7. Identify the alpine glacial landforms highlighted by the placemarks.

First Name:
Last Name:
Your Email Address:
Your Professor's Email Address:

Print this Page « Return to Chapter 22 Study Plan

StudySpace: Chemistry 2e.