#bc glaciers

[seabeck]

A song of stone and ice

[primitive-nature]

Road trip, BC

[loxare]

do i.. WANT to know about the drumlins?

YES YOU DO

Drumlins are glacial landforms, which means you find them only in places that have been glaciated. And they're very distinct when you know what you're looking for.

A hill with one steep side, one looooong sloping side, and you've (most likely) got yourself a drumlin. (Unless it's small. Drumlins are tens of meters high and hundreds of meters long, so if you've got a short one with way more elongation, you've got a drumlinoid.) They're all over Canada,the north eastern US, and northern Europe. The one pictured above is in Ireland. The ones in Canada and the US formed as the Laurentide Ice Sheet, a kilometers thick mass of glacial ice, was spreading across North America during the Last Glacial Maximum

There are lots of really cool glacial landforms (eskers and kames and lakes (Glacial Lake Agassiz my beloved) and like a dozen types of moraine), but drumlins are my favourite because they're so incredibly easy to identify, they occur in swarms, and they're kinda weird as hell

There's still some debate among geomorphologists about how, exactly, they form but I was told that the (mindbogglingly huge mass of) ice catches on a sticky uppy bit of bedrock and instead of mowing it down like a child kicking over a stack of blocks, moves around it instead. And because there's now a place behind the bedrock where there's less ice, the ice drops a whole bunch of glacial till (all the bits of sediment that did get mowed down like a child kicking over a stack of blocks) on the other side of the bedrock bit

(This is a constructional theory, where the drumlin is built up. the other main one is the erosional theory, where everything but the drumlin is eroded. There's also a theory that drumlins are deposited by subglacial meltwater, but that one is highly controversial)

"Now wait," I hear you say, "go back a bit. What the fuck was that about swarms?"

They occur in swarms.

If you've got one drumlin, good chances you've got a lot of drumlins. Which is actually amazing, because the steep side of the drumlin faces the direction of flow, which means we know exactly how the ice sheet moved. In this image, for example, the ice started at the top, near Lake Ontario, and then moved south. From looking at drumlins (and other glacial landforms, we do like to have multiple reference points), we know that the Laurentide Ice Sheet started in the Hudson Bay and crept out from there

And because they're so distinct (tear drop shaped, made of till, occur in swarms), and because drumlins can only have been made by glacial activity, we can look all over the world and find these things and know that this place was once under several thousand tonnes of ice

Not during the Last Glacial Maximum, but definitely ones before it. And I just think that's neat

[waterghostype]

ninjago tierlists just for fun

(wu and unagami rankings are outdated move them up and move scaley vermillion lady down)

[perenlop]

my hope for the pokemon presents that i know will not happen is gates to infinity remake ok bye

[jojo-oliver]

paintings i did 🎨

[pigeocore]

How it feels to be a Glacier x Jerboa III shipper in a Glacier x Blaze sociaty

[clanborn]

Alaska is such a cool place for clans, mine come from BC though. Because I wanted my knock off river clan to swim in the ocean and constantly get into it with sea wolves haha

Ooh that would be a fun conflict. I’ve actually had these clans for a while and originally conceived of them being near the Hudson Bay, but I switched it when I visited alaska and got to actually see a place that work perfectly as a location lol

[cosmohause]

Fire and Ice a deadly combination.

(TEXT READS: Dr. Iceberg, and quote: “Call me Glacier, it sounds more badass”.

[mossinformed]

A tiny moss looking up at an incomprehensibly large glacier like an ant looks at a highway and saying “YOU CAN NOT KILL ME IN A WAY THAT MATTERS” and being fucking right

[lumagarden]

if anyones curious my future fic plans are under the cut!

if theres any suggestions for stuff/something in particular you want to see published first please let me know! my askbox is always open :3!

- chapter 3 of “thought i’d uncovered your secrets (turns out there’s more)” will hopefully be out tomorrow!

- Lloyd’s Daily Training Schedule

- another part to my greenflower “so tonight that i might see” series

- chapter 4~6 of the bruise fic !

as for other stories (without a publishing plan) i have a lot of dragons rising fics in progress, a mermaid!lloyd one, apocalypse bruise au with platonic moss, superstar rockin jay x fan!cole, spiderman!lloyd, soulmate greenflower!au, anddd a fake dating!greenflower au !!

these are just estimated! not sure if I’ll publish them according to plan just wishful thinking :-)

[bihanspookies]

NEW OC QUESTION

What would your oc’s rollerderby names be

[jabberwockjamboree]

my beautiful golden boy

[reikunrei]

i guess i’ve never posted these here!!! still super love these pieces i did for my BFA show in my last semester at school. i still think about how i could keep spending time adding more and more to these forever

colored pencil on paper, 2019

[rabbitcruiser]

On the Road Again

What do you think about my pic?