Essay on The Glaciers of Yosemite National Park

The geography of the park is primarily known for the 8 glaciers scattered throughout the park. Along with these glaciers there is plenty of high altitude mountains in the park. Off the coast and in the bay there is an extreme amount of geography on the seafloor. The seafloor consists of several cold water corals. For the areas without coral the seafloor is home to lichens that range from all shapes and sizes. On the land the most magnificent sight and what the park is known for are the glaciers which is explained in the name Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve. As said before there are eight different glaciers that vary in shape and size. There is the Grand Pacific glacier which id 60-180 feet above sea level and 0-60 feet below sea level. As for many of the glaciers the Grand Pacific is slowly receding year by year. Then there is Johns Hopkins which is perhaps one of the largest of the eight glaciers. It rises an estimated 250 feet above sea level and sinking 200 feet below sea level. Johns Hopkins

A glacier is a large body of ice that moves slowly across land and are formed by there being a higher snow gain rather than a snow melt. Glaciers move by a small amount of ice melting and the glacier sliding. Glaciers can help and destroy the landscape in front of them but they can also shape the land into something amazing. Glaciers were once present in Minnesota thousands of years ago and played a massive role on the landscape we live on today, and as they melted they left behind large amounts of water and formations.

According to Larry Beck in his work, “The National Park Centennial: What the Parks Mean to Us Today,” Yosemite is far more significant than just a pretty place to visit. This national park holds a great significance in the hearts of Americans, for it represents the strength and determination of our nation amidst the crises which were brought on by the

Secrets can destroy even the most respected people. Sometimes is not the secret itself that drives people into exhaustion, but the emotional baggage that comes with it. In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter, Reverend Dimmesdale physically deteriorates because of his guilt caused by a dishonorable sin. The Puritan society in which the story is set discourages the idea of the private self, which Hawthorne shows by creating distinctions between the characters’ private and public lives, specifically Dimmesdale’s.

Whether it’s useful or useless. Because some day it will be gone forever and we will confront the problems of losing it. The evidences to support the author’s opinion is “ Snow and ice are the Earth’s built-in air conditioner-crucial to the health of the planet. Without winter’s white mantle, Earth will become a heat sponge. As heat escalates, all our sources of fresh water will disappear”. The quote explains the important role of glacier to keep the earth cool down, and deflect the heat from the sun,

Even though some of the links could not found, I still learned some cool and disturbing facts about glaciers. For example, ice bergs are nicknamed "rivers of ice" because they constantly move like rivers but at a much slower pace. Also if the ice bergs keep melting at the rate that they are, sea levels will rise and cause major damage and cause natural disasters like, flooding. Also the freshwater that's stored within the ice bergs would mix into the saltwater and led to a very limited availability of freshwater. Global warming is a major factor in the melting of the ice bergs and it's up to man to get this problem under

Weather and erosion caused large accumulations of detritus to accumulate which is where the cold air causes water to freeze and become ice. Ice Mountain was formed by the natural collision of tectonic plates. Over time this mountain was worn down by rain and by the wind and slowly over thousand of years carved to what it is now. Ice Mountain was designated a National Natural Landmark by the National Natural Landmarks program in 2012. This means that the owner of Ice Mountain, The Nature Conservancy, agreed to attempt to preserve Ice Mountain’s natural bounty as much as possible. The wide variety of uses by man of this nature forged resource is what truly makes this part of mankind’s heritage as well as its uniqueness amongst other nearby mountains being one of only a few natural areas with such a refrigeration

Glacier Erosion are huge blocks of ice that move along the landscape, carving distinct features along the way. There are three main parts of Glacier Erosion: Plucking, Abrasion, and Freeze-Thaw. When the ice moves downhill, rock is plucked from the back wall of a Glacier.

Yosemite National Park, is a beautiful piece of nature it is a 195 mile nature getaway from the urban life that is lived San Francisco, CA and 315 miles away from the fast pace and overwhelming life that is lived in Los Angeles CA. This place is like no other in the beauty of its nature. The park is “747,956 acres, and is the home to hundreds of wildlife species and thousands of Yosemite plants” (U.S. Nat. Park Service). Yosemite is known for so many beautiful features, from its granite cliffs, waterfalls, clear streams, giant sequoia groves and biological diversity. And also for its two rivers which are the Tuolumne and Merced rivers. These rivers begin in the park and flow as far as west to the

Titration Investigation Aim: The aim of my investigation is to determine the solubility of calcium Hydroxide solution with the aid of the titration process. Titration can be defined as the method of determining the concentration of a substance in solution by adding to it a standard reagent of known concentration in carefully measured amounts until a reaction of definite and known proportion is completed, as shown by a color change or by electrical measurement, and then calculating the unknown concentration. An example could be, a given volume of a solution of unknown acidity may be titrated with a base of known concentration until complete neutralization has occurred.

The glacier itself is controlled throughout a year by its balance, a summer balance combined with a winter balance. In the winter there is heavy snowfall, so large amounts of accumulation with little amounts of ablation. On the flip side when it comes to summer there is large amounts of ablation and a small amount of accumulation, the mass of a glaciers depends on the accumulation and ablation it suffers throughout the year. If the glaciers is cold based it freezes to the ground making it hard to move and in turn erode the landscape, most if not all the erosion occurs in a warm based glacier. The differing colour of each glacier is important, cold based glaciers are white in colour, with little material being picked up but on the flip side warm based glaciers are very dirty in colour and laden with material which helps the erosion

Are vaccinations safe and effective for our children? That become the significant rising question many parents discuss about it, before they give vaccination for their children. There are diseases have been eradicated by vaccination. For example, the smallpox is eradicated in 1977. Also there are diseases will be eliminating soon by vaccination such as, the measles. There are 757 thousand deaths from measles in 2000 that reduce to 145,700 thousand deaths in 2013. But this disease is spreading in some regions of the world because of ignorant campaigns against vaccination. Although many countries have compulsory vaccinations, there are parents refuse giving their children vaccination.

Remote sensing has become a very valuable tool for documenting the response of glacier to changing climate (Bamber and Kwok, 2003; Kuhn, 2007; Pellikka, 2007; Solomon et al, 2007) because the rugged terrain, inaccessibility and legendary poor weather of glacier areas has resulted in relatively few field- based studies. Indeed, in order to use glaciers and their changes as indicators of climate change, or as an early warning signal for sea level rise, remote sensing is the only tool to provide glacier change information from all the continents and from a large number of glaciers and ice sheets. On the other hands, because space borne and airborne remote sensing data provide superior cost- effective and area effective data and methods for monitoring the glaciers and their changes, part of this monitoring can be carried out by it.

Glaciers are one of the most fundamental phenomenon on the planet, and much of their purpose and impact on earth has been well documented and published. Ice sheets, Ice Caps and Glaciers trap nearly 90% of the world's fresh water, and are replenished by snowfall each year. Their existence on this planet dates back 650,000,000 years and yet they are always moving, always shifting and always melting. Before, human existence and even during the brief era of humans, ice dominated all of the earth's landmass and have regulated, created and altered many of the landscapes around the world.

The Himalayas in India are important resource of water for the population in India and around the world. Glaciers are in deep trouble due to the climate change and this hurts billions of people in the Ganges River. The snow that falls in the Himalayas compacts into glaciers thus providing a continuous water supply. However melting of the ice is happening faster then predicted and according to a meeting in Denmark sea level rise is about 3 feet by the end of the century. Global warming might trigger worldwide food crisis that will threaten international security. In Montana the ice may disappear in just over a decade and by 2020 glacier will be gone unless changes are done to stop temperature from rising. In the 1980s, the U.S.G.S. began a more systematic study of the remaining glaciers, which has continued to the present day. By 2010, 37 glaciers remained, but only 25 of these were considered to be "active glaciers" of at least 25 acres (0.10 km2) in area. If the current warming trend continues, all of the remaining glaciers in the park will be gone by 2030.Thie glacier retreat follows a worldwide pattern that has accelerated even more since 1980. Without a major climatic change in which cooler and moister weather returns and persists, the mass balance, which is the accumulation rate versus the ablation (melting) rate of glaciers, will continue to be negative and the glaciers will eventually disappear, leaving behind only barren