Resources

General Books on Glaciers

• Alley, R. B., 2000, The Two-Mile Time Machine: Ice Cores, Abrupt Climate Change, and Our Future, Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 229 pp.
• Benn, D. I., and D. J. Evans, 2010, Glaciers and Glaciation, 2nd edition, Hodder Arnold, London, UK, 816 pp.
• Fagan, B. M., 2009, The Complete Ice Age: How Climate Change Shaped the World, Thames & Hudson, New York, 240 pp.
• Ferguson, S. A., 1992, Glaciers of North America: A Field Guide, Fulcrum Publishers, Golden, CO, 176 pp.
• Imbrie, J., and K. P. Imbrie, 1979, Ice Ages: Solving the Mystery, Enslow Publishers, Short Hills, NJ, 224 pp.
• Macdougall, J. D., 2004, Frozen Earth: The Once and Future Story of Ice Ages, University of California Press, Berkeley, CA, 256 pp.
• Ruddiman, W. F., 2001, Earth’s Climate: Past and Future, W. H. Freeman, New York, 465 pp.
• White, C., 2013, The Melting World: A Journey Across America’s Vanishing Glaciers, St. Martin’s Press, New York, 272 pp.

General Websites on Glaciers

• Landforms of Glaciation, by M. Pidwirny and S. Jones, 2006.
• Pleistocene Glaciers and Geography, by Steven Dutch.
• What is Glaciation? What Causes It?, NOAA Paleoclimatology, 2003.

Glaciers in the Northwest Central

• Ahlbrandt, T. S., and S. G. Fryberger, 1980, Geologic and paleoecologic studies of the Nebraska Sand Hills, Eolian deposits in the Nebraska Sand Hills, US Geological Survey Professional Paper 1120-A, B, C, 58 pp.. [PDF]
• Cannon, C., 2011, Glaciers of Idaho, in Glaciers of the American West.
• Fountain, A. G., 2011, Glaciers of Montana, In: Glaciers of the American West.
• Fountain, A. G., 2011, Glaciers of Wyoming, In: Glaciers of the American West.
• Gilbertson, J. P., 1995, Glaciers in South Dakota, Division of Geological Survey, Department of Environment and Natural Resources, Vermillion, SD.
• Glacial Features of North Dakota, North Dakota State University.
• Glacial Lake Agassiz, by John P. Bluemle, North Dakota Geological Survey.
• Glacial Lake Missoula and the Ice Age Floods, 2005, Montana Natural History Center.
• Retreat of Glaciers in Glacier National Park [Montana], by Dan Fagre, US Geological Survey.
• USGS Repeat Photography Project Documents Retreating Glaciers in Glacier National Park [Montana], by Dan Fagre, US Geological Survey.
• Wayne, W. J., 2011, Glaciation, In: Encyclopedia of the Great Plains, ed. by David J. Wishart.