Antecedentes



 
Landsat satellite images showing retreating glaciers in the Andes of Peru, South America. (See GoogleEarth file location 3.8)

Model of a glacier
 
Model of a glacier with accumulation area, ablation area, terminal lake and moraine. To learn more about the dynamics of glaciers, go to our Glacier Ice Flow case study.

The Steigletscher (1994) in the very east of the Berne canton in
 


The Steigletscher  (2004) in Switzerland