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Glacier:move,ero,dep

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till   unsorted material deposited by glacier (large)  
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stratified drift   Sediments deposited by glacial meltwater that are sorted and layered (small)  
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glacial erratics   piece of rock that differs from the size and type of rock native to the area in which it rests.  
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glacier   dense ice sheet that slides down a slope due to gravity  
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alpine glacier   glacier that started in a bowl shaped mountain cavity (cirque) and flows into a valley  
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piedmont glacier   a valley glacier that slides down into a plain  
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icecap   covering of ice over a large area  
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plastic flow   movement within the ice; beneath zone of accumulation and zone of wastage and zone of fracture  
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zone of fracture   Upper 30 - 60 meters ; brittle behavior; the ice breaks rather than undergoing gradual permanent distortion and flow  
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zone of accumulation   where snow and ice form; snow accumulates faster than it melts; above equilibrium line; front  
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zone of wastage   below equilibrium line; ice and snow melt faster than the accumulate; toe  
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crevasse   zone of fracture; caused by tension when when moving over irregular terrain; cracks in ice  
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ablation   loss of snow at lower end of glacier (zone of wastage)  
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calving   large pieced of ice break off of front of glacier; creates ice bergs  
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ice berg   floating pieces of ice  
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firn   stage between snow and permanent ice  
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glacial retreat   glacier shrinks  
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glacial advance   glacier grows  
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equilibrium line   where the amount of new snow gained by accusation is equal to the amount of snow lost by abrasion; moves up in the summer and down in the winter  
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plucking   meltwater penetrated the cracks and joints along the rock floor of the glacier and freezes; erosion and transportation of large chunks of rock  
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abrasion   ice and load of rock fragment slide over bedrock, and smooth, crape, and polish the bedrock; erosion that occurs when the particles scrape against each other  
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glacial striations   scrapping of glacier; formed by abrasion  
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u-shaped valley   also known as glacial trough  
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trough   glacier widen, deepen, and straighten valley,  
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hanging valley   after ice has redeemed, valleys of smaller tributary glaciers are left standing above the main glacial trough  
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cirque   bowl-shaped depression  
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arete   sharpe-edged ridges; line of sharp pyramid like peaks  
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horn   pyramid like peak that projects above surrounding  
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fjord   steep sided inlets of sea; a long, narrow, deep inlet of the sea between high cliffs  
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glacial flour   rock in a powdery form caused by glacial erosion; the bottom go the glacier rubs across the bedrock layer, eroding the softer material  
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tarns   mountain lake or pool formed in a cirque excavated by a glacier  
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paternoster lakes   one of a series of glacial lakes connected by a single stream or a braided stream system of cirques  
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morain   glacially formed accumulation of unconsolidated glacial debris (soil and rock)  
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terminal or end morain   farthest advance of glacier(moraine)  
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lateral morain   along the side (moraine)  
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medial morain   (moraine) 2 valley glaciers intersect to form one ice stream  
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esker   remain of river that ran underneath a glacier; winding ridge of stratified sand and grave  
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kettles   large piece of ice breaks off a glacier as it moves; leaves depression such as lake  
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drumlin   elongated hill in shape of egg; formed from glacier moving over till  
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