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Glaciers and periodic ice ages are a normal part of Earth's long-term climate dynamics. Alpine glaciers are found in mountainous regions where higher elevations keep air temperatures cold enough for snow to accumulate into layers of ice. Continental glaciers are found in the polar regions: Greenland, the Canadian Arctic and in Antarctica. Though these regions are dry, polar deserts, temperatures are low enough to allow snow to accumulate over centuries and millenia into vast sheets of ice.
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How Ice Ages Happen - The Milankovitch Cycle (6:46)
How do glaciers shape the landscape? (OxfordEd 2:30)
How do glaciers move?
(PBS 7:03)
The Rise and Fall of the Great Lakes (NFB: 17min)
What's so Great and the Great Lakes? (TED-Ed 4:46)
Great Lakes in Profile
Michigan SeaGrant - Fast Facts
Receding glaciers and glacial lakes around the Great Lakes
(CSEG)
from: OpenGeology.org