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| Shape divid that seperates two ajoining cirques. |
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| Procees by wich a block of glacier breaks off and falls into the sea to make a iceberg. |
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| Semicircular basin formed at the head of a glacial valley. |
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Continental Glacier [image] |
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| Large sheets of ice covering a large part of a continent. |
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| Great fissure or crack in a glacier. |
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Long canoe shaped hills made of till and shaped by an advancing glacier. |
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| Rock that has been transported by glacial action. |
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| A long winding ridge formed when sand and gravel fill meltwater tunnels beneath a glacier. |
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| Partially frozen and compacted refrozen snow wich has yet to become a glacier. |
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| U-shaped valley formed by glacial erosion. |
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| Pyramid shaped formed where three or more cirques meet. |
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| Another name for a continental glacier. |
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| Small cone shaped hills formed at the glacial front by meltwater pouring sediment off the glaciers surface. |
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| Circular hollow left in outwash plain when a burried ice block melts. |
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| Accumulatins of glacial till. |
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| Mountains that project through ice sheets. |
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| Sediment deposit in front of glacier by streams of melted water. |
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| Broad stratification, gently sloping, deposit of sediment formed beyond the terminal morain by streams of a melting glacier. |
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| Mass of glacial eroded bedrock. |
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| Fine sand and silt formed by the crushing of rock beneath a glacier. |
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| Lowest level of that permenant snow reaches durning summer. |
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Scratches left on rocks and bedrock by glacier movment. |
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unsorted and unstratafied rock materials carried in the bottom of a glacier. |
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| A lon- slow moving wedge shaped stream of ice. |
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