Cold Environments

Cold Environments

1. Global Distribution

   • Glacial
   • Periglacial
   • Alpine
   • Polar

2. Glacial Budget

3. Ice Movement

   • Basal Slippage
   • Internal Deformation
   • Rotational
   • Compressional
   • Extensional
   • Warm/Cold Glaciers

4. Processes

   • Weathering
     • Frost Shattering

5. Land Forms

   • Arete
   • Pyramidal Peak
   • U-Shaped Valley
   • Drumlins
   • Morraines

6. Fluvioglacial

   • Meltwater Channels
   • Kames
   • Eskers
   • Outwash Plains

7. Periglacial

   • Nivation
   • Permafrost
   • Frost Heave
   • Solifluction
   • Landforms
     • Nivation Hollows
     • Pingos
     • Ice Wedges
     • Patterned Ground
     • Solifluction Lobes

8. Expliotation

   • Tundra
   • South Ocean
   • The Future Of Antartica