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Ice Ages and the Missoula Floods
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Basic Glacier Types Valley Glaciers (South Cascade Glacier) Ice Sheets (Greenland)
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Anatomy of a Glacier When it gets colder or wetter - glaciers get bigger
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Climate Since the Cenozoic Tukwilla Fm Blakeley Fm Vashon Fm H-2
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How do we know that we have been in an Ice Age for 2 Myrs? Evidence of: 1.Glacial Erosion 2.Glacial Sediments 3.Glacial Landforms
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1. Glacial Erosion
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Mt. Stuart
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2. Glacial Sediments Till Outwash (Sand & Gravel)
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3. Glacial Landforms Moraine Glacial Erratic
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North American Ice Sheets Last Glacial Period (ca. 20,000 yrs) H-1
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17,000 years ago H-4
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Puget Sound Ice (map D Molenaar, 1987)
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Puget Sound During the Ice Age (A Modern Analogy - Columbia Glacier, AK) Austin Post
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Sequence of Events Puget Sound Animation H-10
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Seattle Area Shows Evidence for Several Glacial Advances
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Glacial Formations in Puget Sound H-3
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Climate Since the Cenozoic H-2
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Glacial Cycles Within an Ice Age Quaternary Ice Age 2 Myrs Glacial Period Interglacial Period H-3
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Glacial Sediments in Puget Sound
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