Entry requirements

120 credits with Earth Science - Planet Earth 30 credits and Rocks and Quaternary Deposits 10 credits.

Learning outcomes

After completion of the course, the student should

• know the general principles of glaciology and glacial geology
• understand how an ice mass influence, and is influenced over its boundary to the atmo- and geospheres.
• understand the glacial processes that form a glacial landscape, and the forms and deposits resulting of these interactions.
• understand the general climate history over the Quaternary period.
• know how today's ice masses have been influenced and may be influenced in the future by climatic variability, and how this may alter future sea levels.

Content

Glaciology and glacial geology including; climatology and glacial mass balance, glacial dynamics, glacial meteorology, glacial erosion-, transport- and depositional processes, glaciofluvial and glaciomarine processes, glacial landforms and glacial geologic depositional structures, and glacial mass balance, with special attention to sea level changes. The course will include climatic information from ice core records, and the development during the Neogene. The course will also bring information regarding glaciological methods and current questions.

Instruction

The course is given in the form of lectures, seminars and computer exercises. Attendance in seminars and computer exercise, is obligatory.

Assessment

Examination is held during and at the end of the course. Grading on the scale 3, 4 or 5 is given provided all essays; project reports, field work, minor tests and seminars are completed and deemed approved. A student who fails the examination can be examined again either at the beginning of the autumn or the spring term. Written examination corresponds to 5 ECTS compulsory events 5 ECTS.