Geomorphology, Glaciers and Landscapes
Peter G. Knight

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Because today's landscape reflects a history of changing processes in changing environments, we can use landscape as a tool to work out what the environment used to be like in the past. However, this is only possible if we understand the link between processes and landforms. 
That's what this lecture is about. How do glaciers change landscapes?
 
Above: The margin of the glacier Solheimajokull in southern Iceland, one of the most rapidly eroding landscapes on earth, where landforms are created and destroyed by glacial processes at an extraordinary rate. Don't sit around too long... you might get bulldozed!