Glacier and Ice Erosion
By: Meghan M., Jennifer P., MacKenzie B. and Avanthi C.
Welcome to our assigned website on glacier and ice erosion! Here you will
learn all about glacier and ice erosion, how this type of erosion occurs, and
what organizations there are to help prevent erosion and save natural
resources that are effected by erosion.
Definition of Glacier and Ice Erosion
A glacier is an accumulation of ice, air, water, and rock debris or sediment. It is a large enough quantity of ice to flow with gravity due to its own mass. Glaciers move very slowly, from tens of meters to thousands of meters per year (tens of feet to thousands of feet per year). The ice can be as large as a continent, such as the ice sheet covering Antarctica. Or it can fill a small valley between two mountains; a valley glacier.
Please click on a link below to learn more about glacier and ice erosion.
How Do These Glaciers Effect the Land?
How Do These Glaciers Effect the People?
Organizations to Prevent This Erosion
