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Finger Lakes |
In those NY, form where termindal and lateral moraines block excisting streams. |
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Drumlin |
Long, low tear shaped mounds of till. |
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Alpine Glacier |
A narrow wedge shaped mass of moving ice that forms in mountinous regions, that is confined to a small area, including vally glaciers, cirque glaciers, and peidement glaciers. |
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Continental |
Massive sheets of ice that may cover over millions of squere killometers that may be thousands of meters thick and that is not confined by surrounding tophography. |
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Basil Slip |
The process that causes the ice at the base of a glacier to mealt and the glacier to slide. |
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Internal Plastic Flow |
The proccess by which glaciers flow slowely as grains of ice deform under pressure and slide over each other. |
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Crevese |
In a glacier, large crack or a large fissure that results from ice movement. |
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Cirque |
A deep and steep bowl like depression produced by glacier erosion. |
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Roches Mountionvees |
A very steep rock. |
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Hanging Vally |
When ice mealts and flows into a vally. |
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