FLUVIO-GLACIAL DEPOSITS

This page archived Summer 2008

This page contains some useful links for Fluvioglacial deposits: those deposited by glacial meltwater.

http://craton.geol.brocku.ca/faculty/rc/teaching/1F90/figures – contains useful diagrams

ESKERS

For an excellent site all about eskers, go to:

http://www.panorama-publishing.com/research/index.shtml

and follow the links to ‘What is an esker’. Also includes details on how to distinguish between different forms of deposit.

Thanks also to Val Vannet for the ESKER image below, taken at Bridge of Cally near Dundee. Click to enlarge.

http://www.zephryus.demon.co.uk/geography/resources/glaciers/kames.html  

GENERAL

http://www.tulane.edu/~sanelson/geol111/glaciers.htm – useful general article on this aspect.

DRUMLINS

Not really fluvio-glacial necessarily , but they are in the same sort of area as the other landforms.

http://www.sentex.net/~tcc/drumlin1.html – some useful information on how drumlins are formed – various theories discussed and some useful images

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