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Glacial Systems and Landscapes resources for A Level Geography

Glacial systems and landscapes introduces you to the processes that shape cold environments around the world. Study Dog helps you look at the formation of landscapes, and challenges in these environments.

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Course Outline

Glaciers as natural systems
  • Systems concepts in glaciers
  • Inputs, outputs, stores and flows
Nature and distribution of cold environments
  • Global distribution of glacial environments
  • Climate in cold environments
  • Soil in cold environments
  • Plants in cold environments
  • Pleistocene glaciations
Glacial systems and processes
  • Glacial budgets
  • Ablation and accumulation
  • Warm and cold based glaciers
  • Geomorphological processes
  • Fluvioglacial processes
  • Periglacial features
Glaciated environments
  • Erosional and depositional landforms
  • Fluvioglacial landforms
  • Periglacial landforms
Human impacts on cold environments
  • Environmental fragility
  • Impacts of climate change
  • Future management of cold environments
Case Studies
  • Local Scale: Snowdonia
  • Contrasting Environment: Iceland

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