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Glaciers
Glacial Effects and Vocab
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01/20/2005

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Abrasion
Definition
The grinding and weathering down of rock surfaces by other rock or sand particles
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Cirque
Definition
A semi-circular basin on the side of a mountain where a glacier used to be
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Crevasse
Definition
A large crack or hole in the ice of a glacier
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Esker
Definition
Ridge of sand that was a glacial river at one point
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Glacial Plucking
Definition
The process by which a glacier picks rocks and sediments up as it moves over and drops them in other places as it moves
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Horn
Definition
Point where 3 arets come together as a point
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Iceberg
Definition
A large piece of ice that breaks off an ice shelf and drifts into the ocean
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Isostasy
Definition
The balance of pressure
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Lateral Moraine
Definition
Side part of a moraine
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Loess
Definition
Thick deposits of wind blown fine-grained sediments
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Moraine
Definition
Pile of glacial sediment made of till
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Out Wash
Definition
Sediments of all the same type
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Till
Definition
un-sorted rock material that is deposited directly by glacial ice when it melts
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Zone of Ablation
Definition
Point at a glacier where it melts more than it snows
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Zone of Accumalation
Definition
Point in a glacier where it snows more than it melts
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