
Chapter Web Sites
Chapter 12 - Glaciers and Glaciation The following internet sites provide information about glaciers and glaciation along with information about the global climate changes that are associated with periods of glaciation. From these web sites you can learn how glaciers form and grow, where glaciers are presently located on the Earth, and what North America and Europe were like during the last ice age. http://www-nsidc.colorado.edu/NSIDC/gallery.html
http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/paleo/paleo.html
http://geochange.er.usgs.gov/
The National Snow
and Ice Data Center at the University of Colorado at Boulder provides scientific
information, data sets, and images of glaciers around the world.
The National
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Paleoclimatology Program offers
information on global climate change through time.
Visit the USGS
Global Change Research Program site to learn all about climate change from the
recent geologic past to the present. This site contains a wealth of data and
maps illustrating the evidence for climate change.
http://www.museum.state.il.us/exhibits/ice_ages/
Ice Ages - a
virtual museum exhibit from the Illinois State Museum.
http://www.museum.state.il.us/exhibits/larson/
Find out what the
midwestern United States was like 16,000 years ago during the last ice age in
this virtual exhibit, also from the Illinois State Museum.
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