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Ice (glacial budget (accumulation - inputs, ablation - outputs, is glacial…
Ice
glacial budget
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is glacial budget is a positive number, accumulation is more than ablation (longer, deeper, advancing)
is glacial budget is negative number, ablation is more than accumulation (shorter, shallower, retreating)
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the ice age was a period of time when the earths climate was cooler and ice sheets expanded to cover a lot of the earth
the Southern UK wasn't covered so much in ice as the temperature was warmer so there was no permanent ice
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Evidence
landforms
scriations of rocks, drumlins, ground moraine, erratics
fossil evidence
mammoth fossils in sea, hippo fossils (evidence of interglacials)
scientific ice cores
variation of oxygen-18 atoms that show 'history' of ice ie. glacials and interglacials from over 1000 years ago
glacier?
develop where snow has once fallen, the weight of the ice means that it slowly slips down the mountain
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