Talk:Glaciology

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Definition of Glaciology
Glaciology is normally considered to be the study of frozen water in all its forms. Sea ice, for example, is a field of glaciology (and of course oceanography). Glaciers are only one aspect of glaciology and your first sentence should really reflect that. You may wish to note the International Glaciological Society refers to " any aspect of snow and ice" (www.igsoc.org). I would also suggest you note that with recent inter-planetary saetllite missions, particularly those to Mars, this definition of glaciology might be expanded to include frozen carbon dioxide. Keep up the good work!130.237.175.198 13:04, 30 April 2007 (UTC) ===I would like to contribute to how climate change is affecting the glaciers.

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Ice sheets and ice caps
If glaciology doesn't officially study these (despite claiming to study surface ice in general) what discipline actually does? I just linked both of these pages to this discipline. Was I wrong in doing so? &mdash; MaxEnt 01:38, 31 January 2021 (UTC)


 * Glaciology does study ice sheets and ice caps, and those should be linked here. Puddlesofmilk (talk) 23:34, 25 January 2024 (UTC)

What makes this article different than glacier?
Most of this article is a description of glaciers and glacial geomorphology. There is very little that describes the subject and discipline of glaciology itself. Some substantive information about the development of theory and study of glaciers is in the glacier article and not here. I think that most of the information here should be merged with glacier.

A more substantive glaciology page could have information about the field of study, its history, short summaries of the related subfields and foundational theories, research methods, and so on (see hydrology as a simple example, ecology as a "good article" example).

I propose:
 * 1) merge descriptive information about glaciers into the glacier article and remove it from this page.
 * 2) clarify the structure and develop this page to be more analogous to similar types of pages (i.e. hydrology).

--Puddlesofmilk (talk) 23:16, 25 January 2024 (UTC)

Movement
The section on movement describes why the overall extent of the ice may change/why the terminus may move. The section does not accurately describe the ways in which glacial ice moves (see Glacier), and could leave the reader with the mistaken impression that a glacier only moves when it is not in "steady state." This section should be clarified. --Puddlesofmilk (talk) 23:16, 25 January 2024 (UTC)