Gwybodaeth Modiwlau
- Professor Richard Chiverrell (Professor - University of Liverpool)
Course Delivery
Delivery Type | Delivery length / details |
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Lecture | 11 x 2 Hour Lectures |
Assessment
Assessment Type | Assessment length / details | Proportion |
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Semester Assessment | 1 x seminar report (max. 2000 words) | 30% |
Semester Assessment | 1 x fieldwork report (max. 2000 words) | 30% |
Semester Assessment | 1 x seen extended essay from a choice of topics (max. 3000 words) | 40% |
Supplementary Assessment | Students will be required to resubmit failed semester assignments | 100% |
Learning Outcomes
on successful completion of this module students should be able to:
- describe the physical relationships between climate change and ice-mass response.
* characterise processes of glacier motion and the relationships between that motion and (a) the structural form of ice masses, and (b) the transport and delivery of sediments by ice masses.
* illustrate the functioning of glaciers as hydrological systems, able to act as distinctive water stores and able to release that water into their surrounding environments.
* describe the operation of ice masses as hazards in many parts of the world.
* appreciate the relative strengths and weaknesses of the techniques employed in glaciological investigations, and to evaluate contemporary glaciological research.
Aims
- relationships between ice masses and climate.
- glacier motion and processes and processes of sediment incorporation, transport and deposition
- the functioning of glaciers as hydrological systems.
- the techniques employed in glaciological and glacial-sedimentological investigations
Content
- Glacier structure and mass balance
- Seminar 1: Ice mass response to climate change - the IPCC Report
- Glacier motion 1: processes and patterns
- Glacier motion 2: fast ice flow
- Glacier motion 3: structural glaciology
- Glacier sediments: entrainment, transport and deposition
- Meltwater generation, transport and delivery
- Seminar 2: ice mass response to climate change - modelling
- Surge-type Glaciers
- Glacier hazards
Fieldwork 1. Snowdon: erosion and ice motion
Notes
This module is at CQFW Level 6