Flashcards: Glaciers

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elliott4 on June 23, 2011

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Flashcards: Glaciers

drumlins
tear drop shaped mounds of debris, pointed end faces the front of the glacier
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drumlins tear drop shaped mounds of debris, pointed end faces the front of the glacier
dynamic equilibrium opposing forces or actions balancing out results in no change
glacier a large body of ice moving slowly down a slope or valley or spreading outward on a land surface ( deposit unsorted sediment)
kettle lake forms when a depression left in till by melting ice fills with water
outwash plain area in front of a glacier in which melt water from the glacier has carried & deposited an abundance of sorted material
erratic large boulder transported and deposited by a glacier. Sticks out does not match rocks in area
esker long, winding ridge of layered sediments deposited by streams that flow beneath a melting glacier
striation Long parallel scratches left on rocks and bedrock by glacial movement.
terminal moraine The final deposit of glacial debris marking the farthest advance of a glacier
U-shaped valleys these are carved by glaciers

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