year 12 glacier awareness

In the glacial topic you need an awareness of actual examples of what is happening to glaciers around the world. A start is european glaciers - see this website. Make notes on it.

Research on glacial movement: http://www.bioone.org/doi/pdf/10.1659/MRD-JOURNAL-D-11-00020.1

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