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glaciers
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glacier | A large mass of moving ice and snow on land |
iceberg | A huge block of floating ice broken from a glacier, found in the most northerly and southerly areas of the world's oceans |
kettle lake | a lake that forms when a block of ice falls off of the glacial front, is buried by glacial drift, and then melts, forming a depression that fills with water. |
glacial erratic | An ice-transported boulder that was not derived from the bedrock near its present site. |
Drumlin | A long mound of till that is smoothed in the direction of the glacier's flow |
outwash plain | a plain formed of glacial sediments deposited by meltwater outwash at the terminus of a glacier. |
glacial moraine | material moved from a glacier and left behind from the process of deposition |
U-shaped valley | The shape of a valley formed by the erosion of a glacier |
valley glacier | glaciers that form in valleys in high, mountainous areas |